1. Abstract Nonlinear Energy Sinks (NESs) are a promising technique for passively reducing the amplitude of vibrations, especially for use as energy pumping devices for buildings under seismic loading. Through nonlinear stiffness properties, a NES is able to passively and irreversibly absorb energy. Unlike the traditional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), the NES has no inherent natural frequency, allow...

The aim of this paper is to study the effectiveness of the passive, active and semiactive versions of the composite tuned mass damper systems to reduce vibrations of building structures exposed to strong winds. The LQR method is used to determine the active and semi-active control forces. Several remarks concerning the effectiveness of considering dampers are formulated on the basis of extensiv...

In current work the Inerter-Connected Double Tuned Mass Damper (ICDTMD) is employed for structural control of a well-recognized benchmark 10-story linear shear building. The ICDTMD introduced to overcome practical limitations roof-top tuned mass damper inerter (TMDI), in which second terminal connected lower floors To this end, modification double (DTMD) with linking proposed not only exploit p...

The main focus of this research has been to investigate the effectiveness of optimal single and multiple Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) under different ground motions as well as to develop a procedure for designing TMD and MTMDs to be effective under multiple records. To determine the parameters of TMD and MTMDs under multiple records various scenarios have been suggested and their efficiency has be...

Passive control devices have been used for a long time to reduce unwanted vibrations. The most commonly of these are tuned mass dampers. optimum parameters the three-element damper damped main structures due ground acceleration investigated in this paper. Unlike traditional damper, contains two spring elements and one them is connected series with damping element. obtained by simulated annealin...

Inerters are a novel type of mechanical actuation devices that are able to produce large inertial forces with a relatively small mass. Due to this property, inerters can provide an effective solution to the main drawbacks of tuned mass-dampers and, consequently, they are gaining an increasing relevance in the field of passive structural vibration control. In this paper, a computational design s...