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Its accuracy has been verified by four various approaches. Firstly, for the case of collisions between two structural elements, the dissipated energy during impact has been compared to the loss of kinetic energy. In the second stage of verifications, the peak impact forces during single collision have been analyzed. Then, the accuracy of different equations have been verified by comparing the impact force time histories for the situation when a concrete ball is dropped on a rigid concrete surface. Finally, pounding between two structures during earthquakes has been studied. The results of the analysis focused on comparison between dissipated and kinetic energy show relatively low errors between calculated and assumed values of the coefficient of restitution when the proposed equation is used. In addition, the results of the comparison between experimentally and numerically determined peak impact forces during single collision confirm the effectiveness of the approach. The same conclusion has been obtained for the whole impact time history for collision between a ball and a rigid surface. Finally, the results of the comparative analysis, conducted for pounding between two structures during an earthquake, confirm the simulation accuracy when the proposed approach is used. The above conclusions indicate that the proposed formula for impact damping ratio, as a parameter of impact force model for simulation of earthquake-induced structural pounding, is very effective and accurate in numerical simulations in the case of different scenarios.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/geosciences9080347","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,8]],"date-time":"2019-08-08T11:05:32Z","timestamp":1565262332000},"page":"347","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Effective Formula for Impact Damping Ratio for Simulation of Earthquake-induced Structural Pounding"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Seyed","family":"Khatami","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Center of Semnan Municipality, University of Applied Science and Technology, 35149 Semnan, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4179-7816","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hosein","family":"Naderpour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, 3513119111 Semnan, Iran"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9510-144X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rui","family":"Barros","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4616-0010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Jakubczyk-Ga\u0142czy\u0144ska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6741-115X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"Jankowski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"195","DOI":"10.1016\/S0141-0296(96)00082-X","article-title":"Building pounding damage during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake","volume":"19","author":"Kasai","year":"1997","journal-title":"Eng. 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