Abstract
The authors have presented a new seismic control device the Tuned Viscous Mass Damper (TVMD). The TVMD consists of a viscous mass damper with an apparent mass amplifier and a soft spring which connects the damper to the primary system. The mass amplifier allowed us to make the additional mass and device itself smaller compared with a conventional TMD. The design method to determine an optimum set of damper parameters has not yet been presented for a vibration control system of a damped MDOF structure, while that of an undamped SDOF structure is obtained by the fixed point theory. In this paper, we present a design method to obtain a set of optimum damper parameters for a seismic control system of a damped MDOF structure using sequential quadratic programming (SQP).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, CST 2010 |
| Publisher | Civil-Comp Press |
| Volume | 93 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781905088386 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | 10th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, CST 2010 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 2010 Sept 14 → 2010 Sept 17 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, CST 2010 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Valencia |
| Period | 10/9/14 → 10/9/17 |
Keywords
- Dynamic vibration absorber
- Fixed point theory
- Optimum vibration control
- Seismic control
- Sequential quadratic programming
- Tuned viscous mass damper