Patent ID: 8516753

Claim:
A damping system comprising: a first set of horizontally extending plates having one end thereof attached to a first vertically extending structural element; a second set of horizontally extending plates having one end thereof embedded in a second vertically extending structural element spaced in a horizontal direction from said first vertically extending structural element; said first set of plates having a second end portion extending towards and overlapping with a second end portion of said second set of plates at an overlapping region; wherein said second end portion of said first set of plates is distal from said first vertically extending structural element and from said second vertically extending structural element; and wherein said second end portion of said second set of plates is distal from said first vertically extending structural element and from said second vertically extending structural element; an energy dissipating material provided in said overlapping region for connecting said first set of plates and said second set of plates; wherein said first and second vertically extending structural elements are each selected from the group consisting of walls, braced frames, moment frames, and columns.