Active control of structural vibration by an active mass damper. Comparison between the performance of active mass damper and passive mass damper against the earthquake motion.

H∞ robust control design of active structural vibration suppression using an active mass damper

A mathematical model of any real system is always just an approximation of the true, physical reality of the system dynamics. There are always uncertainties in the system modeling. This paper outlines a general approach to the design of an H∞ control of an active mass damper (AMD) for vibration reduction of a building with mass and stiffness uncertainties. Linear fractional transformation (LFT)...

Fuzzy Control of Seismic Structure with an Active Mass Damper

Fuzzy theory is highly promising for active structural control. The advantage of fuzzy controllers over classical controllers is the limited number of measured structural responses used to implement the control rules and its intrinsic robustness. In this paper, Fuzzy rules were generated firstly by learning from sample data obtained from the performance of the system under optimal control algor...

Assessment of Semi-Active Tunes Mass Damper Application in Suppressing Seismic-Induced Vibration of an Existing Jacket Platform

In this study, mass, stiffness and damping matrices of the Nosrat jacket; located in Persian Gulf; equipped with Semi Active Tuned Mass Damper (SATMD) system have been derived after modeling the structure in SACS software. Owing to huge number of the degrees of freedom in the model, computation of on-line control of SATMD was time consuming. For this purpose, the size of the model was reduced i...

Transverse Vibration Control for Cable Stayed Bridge Under Construction Using Active Mass Damper

Characteristics of Active Forces in Structural Hybrid Mass Damper Control Systems

This paper gives the numerical analysis on characteristics of active force in HMD control systems. In order to quantitatively evaluates the direction characteristics of active force with respect to the relative displacement or velocity of mass piece, a set of five performance indexes are defined, and also the ratios of either peak value or RMS value of active force to inertia force. This set of...