The purpose of this paper is to understand elasto-plastic wind response characteristics of detached timber buildings with visco-elastic dampers that began to spread recently. The following approach is employed in this study. 1) Loading experiments acting long-duration random waves such as wind forces on a timber-frame wall with the dampers are conducted to examine their dynamic behavior. 2) Accuracy of time history behavior analysis of the wall is verified by comparing their results with the experiment results. 3) Time history wind response analyses with single degree of freedom models of the buildings are carried out to examine their characteristics. Furthermore, elastic response analyses and earthquake response analyses are carried out, then the wind response characteristics are set out by comparing each other.
