Published: February 20, 2012Received: June 10, 2011Available on J-STAGE: February 20, 2012Accepted: August 09, 2011
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The purpose of this study is to increase damping capacity of bearing walls for steel framed houses. In this paper, a simple method using visco-elastic material is proposed for this purpose. Damping property is evaluated by full-scale test of bearing walls subject to dynamic and static load.