Review article

The article discusses the approaches of Russian civil engineering standards regulating the calculation of building structures for dynamic loads (harmonic, wind, seismic ones). Various damping parameters such as the logarithmic decrement of oscillations δ, the coefficient of internal friction γ and the coefficient of energy dissipation are reduced to a single parameter of the energy absorption coefficient. The above values are compared with each other and with the values obtained from the results of field experiments. An approach to accounting and further study of damping is suggested.