The topology optimization design of structures with anisotropic constrained damping layers (ACDL) is investigated in present paper. The evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) method is employed to find the optimal layout of ACDL with aim to maximum the modal damping loss factor of the sandwich structure. Modal strain energy (MSE) method is used to calculate the damping loss factor of whole ...

Ground-motion prediction equations that are used to predict acceleration values are generally developed for a 5% viscous damping ratio. Special structures and structures that use damping devices may have damping ratios other than the conventionally used ratio of 5%. Hence, for such structures, the intensity measures predicted by conventional ground-motion prediction equations need to be convert...

The agreement between the intrinsic damping, obtained from the sustained oscillations measurements, and the values measured directly in forced oscillations has been verified. Therefore, it is possible to measure directly the intrinsic damping from forced oscillations, without additional calculations and with minor effort. At the same time the damping behaviour measured by different modes with a...

A current source converter (CSC) based static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is a shunt flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) device, which has a vital role in stability support for transient instability and damping support for undesirable interarea oscillations in an interconnected power network. A robust pole-shifting based controller for CSC-STATCOM with damping stabilizer is proposed. ...

This dissertation reports a systematic study on analysis and identification of multiple parameter damped mechanical systems. The attention is focused on viscously and non-viscously damped multiple degree-offreedom linear vibrating systems. The non-viscous damping model is such that the damping forces depend on the past history of motion via convolution integrals over some kernel functions. The ...