A numerical study of damping

Diagonal damping matrices were computed for three systems which have non‐proportional damping matrices. These diagonal damping matrices were computed on three bases, as follows: 1. After normalizing the equations of motion by the modal matrix, the diagonal terms are retained ignoring the non‐diagonal terms. 2. Diagonal damping matrix is established by the optimization algorithm which minimizes the mean square error of the frequency response. 3. Diagonal damping is determined from the normalized differential equation by matching the peaks of the coupled and uncoupled system. The frequency responses for the three cases of one of the three systems are presented together with a comparison of the energy dissipation.