In the area of semi-active control of civil structures, Magneto-Rheological (MR) damper has been an efficient mechanism for reducing the seismic response of structures. In this paper, an effective method based on defining an optimization problem for designing MR dampers has been proposed. In the proposed method, the parameters of semi-active control system are determined so that the maximum res...

Bayesian optimal experimental design is a sub-field of statistics focused on developing methods to make efficient use resources. Any potential evaluated in terms utility function, such as the (theoretically well-justified) expected information gain (EIG); unfortunately however, under most circumstances EIG intractable evaluate. In this work we build off successful variational approaches, which ...