SEMI-ACTIVE PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF STRUCTURES WITH CONTROLLED STIFFNESS DEVICES AND VARIABLE FRICTION DAMPER SYSTEM

Semi-active Control of Building Structures using Variable Stiffness Device and Fuzzy Logic

Semi-active control devices, also called “Intelligent” control devices, constitute the positive aspects of both the passive and active control devices. A semi-active control strategy is similar to the active control strategy, but this control device has been shown to be more energy-efficient than active devices. A particular type of semi-active control device, the Variable Stiffness Device (VSD...

A Semi-Active Variable Stiffness and Damping System for Vibration Control of Civil Engineering Structures

This paper proposes a new semi-active variable stiffness and damping system (AVSD) for vibration control of civil engineering structures. The AVSD system can alter rigidity and damping of the controlled structure at each control interval to attenuate the structural responses. The composition of two hydraulic cylinder-piston systems of the AVSD system is capable of amplifying the interstory drif...

Multi-objective Optimization of Semi-active Control of Seismically Exited Buildings Using Variable Damper and Genetic Algorithms

Semi-active fluid viscous dampers as a subset of control systems have shown their ability to reduce seismic responses of tall buildings. In this paper, multi-objective optimization of the performance of this group of dampers in reducing the seismic responses of buildings is studied using multi-objective genetic algorithms. For numerical example, two 7 and 18 stories buildings are chosen and mod...

Development of a New Semi-active Friction Damper

Structural Control Based on Semi-active Variable Friction Dampers

This paper discusses a methodology of semi-active structural control using a variable friction damper. The presented algorithm is quite simple and straightforward, in which only the slip level of the friction damper is controlled in response to the interstory response velocity of the damperinstalled story so as to maintain the target constant ductility factor. In conducting control there is adv...