Tension-Leg Platform (TLP) is a vertically moored floating structure. The platform is permanently mooredby tendons. Surge equation of motion of TLP is highly nonlinear because of large displacement and it should be solved with perturbation parameter in time domain. This paper compare the dynamic motion responses of a TLP in regular sea waves obtained by applying three method in time domain usin...

the understanding of the dynamic behavior of distillation columns has received considerable attention because distillation is one of the most widely used unit operations in chemical process industries. this paper reports a dynamic simulation study of the possible distillation columns sequences of dew pointing unit in the second phase of south pars gas refinery. in this unit, three columns are u...

this paper addresses a nonlinear observer based control scheme to synchronize chaotic systems subject to uncertainties and external disturbances. it is assumed that the dynamic of slave system is not completely known. in order to compensate for the system perturbation resulting from parameter variations and mismodeling phenomena, an adaptive neural network observer is employed to handle this pr...

The determination of structural and nonstructural damage under earthquake excitations is usually considered as a key factor in performance-based seismic design (PBSD) methods is In this regard, various damage indices have been developed in recent years to quantitatively estimate structural damage. The aim of this study is to develop a simple method to evaluate performance levels of zipper-brace...

The output behavior of a nonlinear control system depends not only on its input but also on its initial conditions. These two factors have to be considered simultaneously in nonlinear systems design. This paper presents a new definition, called dynamic right factorization, for nonlinear dynamic control systems. This factorization takes the initial conditions as well as the system input into acc...

response modification factor (r factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to be considered in evaluating the performance of buildings during strong motions. this paper has tried to evaluate the response modification factor of concrete coupled shear wall structures with various length/depth ratios of spandrel beams. the effect of diagonal reinforcement of spandrel beam was also evaluated o...

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamical behavior of an isotropic rectangular plate, simply supported on all edges under influence of a moving mass and as well as an equivalent concentrated force is studied. The governing nonlinear coupled PDEs of motion are derived by energy method using Hamilton’s principle based on the large deflection theory in conjuncture with the von-Karman strain-displacem...

Friction is a nonlinear phenomenon which has destructive effects on performance of control systems. To obviate these effects, friction compensation is an effectual solution. In this paper, an adaptive technique is proposed in order to eliminate limit cycles as one of the undesired behaviors due to presence of friction in control systems which happen frequently. The proposed approach works for n...

In this paper, dynamic games for a class of infinite horizon for nonlinear stochastic system governed by Itô differential equation are investigated. Particularly, Pareto and Nash strategies are both discussed. After defining the equilibrium condition, the conditions for the existence of the strategy sets are given by means of solvability of cross-coupled Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (HJBEs...