Optimal Placement Of Controllers For Seismic Structures

Abstract

Active control devices can be implemented on seismic structures to reduce structural response from earthquakes. Certain locations of the structure are advantageous for placement of the controllers in the sense that these locations effectively reduce structural response while using the minimum control effort. A method is proposed which uses an empirical procedure to find the optimal locations by maximizing an optimal locations index. The method takes into consideration the modal responses and earthquake spectra for two different earthquake records. The proposed method is compared to two methods; in the first method a control energy performance index is minimized; the second method uses a minimum response performance index as the criterion. The proposed method is found to agree with the two alternative methods and saves computation time. © 1990.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Comments

National Science Foundation, Grant None

Keywords and Phrases

active control; earthquakes; optimization; structural control; structures

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0141-0296

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2023 Elsevier, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 1990

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