Satisfactory damping of power oscillations is an important issue to be addressed when dealing with the angle stability of power systems. This phenomenon is well-known and observable especially when a fault occurs. To improve the damping of oscillations in power systems, supplementary control laws can be applied to existing devices. These supplementary actions are referred to as power oscillatio...

This paper presents an approach for the optimal design of a new retrofi t technique called weakening and damping that is valid for civil engineering inelastic structures. An alternative design methodology is developed with respect to the existing ones that is able to determine the locations and the magnitude of weakening and/or softening of structural elements and adding damping while insuring ...

Google, the largest search engine worldwide, adopts PageRank technology to determine the rank of website listings. This paper describes how damping factor is a critical factor in changing a website’s ranking in traditional Google PageRank technology. A modified algorithm based on input–output ratio concept is proposed to substitute for the damping factor. Besides there is no need to choose an o...

This paper examines efficacy of tuned mass dampers ~TMD! in controlling self-excited motion resulting from negative damping. New optimal TMD parameters are suggested which provide better performance than those suggested in the literature. The dependence of TMD performance on structural damping is highlighted. The equations of motion of a combined system comprised of multiple TMDs attached to a ...

Damping material is usually applied on the steel panel of a vehicle to reduce vibration level. On the other hand, the weight reduction is also required to improve fuel consumption. Therefore, modal loss factors induced by damping material on the steel panel of a vehicle body structure need to be maximized with a given volume. In this paper we propose a practical design method to maximize modal ...

Our aim is to optimize the damping of a linear vibrating system. As the optimality criterion we use the one where the penalty function is given as the average total energy over all initial states of unit energy, which is equal to the trace of the corresponding Lyapunov solution multiplied by a matrix corresponding to the chosen measure on the set of initial states. We solve this optimization pr...