In this paper, some recent advances and a few novel concepts are presented for motion control of highrise building and bridge structures under dynamic wind and earthquake loading. Recent research performed by the authors in the areas of smart structures, hybrid control, tuned liquid column damper, and wavelets is reviewed.

The rotordynamic and leaking characteristics of two types of gas damper seals, honeycomb seal and pocket damper seal, were experimentally evaluated on a rotating test rig. The effect of supply pressure, preswirl, and seal eccentricity on seal dynamic performance was investigated in the tests. The pressurized working gas flowed through the seal and exhausted to atmospheric conditions. The maximu...

The tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) having a uniform cross-sectional tube of U-shaped, occupied with liquid is used as a vibrational response mitigation device. The tuned liquid column ball damper (TLCBD) is a modified TLCD, where, an immovable orifice, positioned at the middle part of the horizontal portion, is replaced by a metal ball. Different studies on the unconstrained optimization per...


 Coupling beam damper can be easily repaired in the post-earthquake, which dissipate seismic energy of structure earthquake action. In this paper, mitigation efficiency coupling shear wall is analysed by using fast nonlinear analysis method. Meanwhile, effect layout location and number dampers on are studied. Finally, performance parameter also analysed. The results indicate that: story f...

This article deals with the applicability of passive tuned mass damper (PTMD) for reducing the dynamic responses of structures under near-fault earthquake excitations. Three types of pulse-like time functions are employed to simulate the near-fault ground motion. The vibration control effectiveness of PTMDs is extensively investigated through the comparisons of response spectrum and response ti...

This paper presents the design, fabrication and evaluation of magneto-rheological damper. Semi-active control devices have received significant attention in recent years because they offer the adaptability of active control devices without requiring the associated large power sources. Magneto-Rheological (MR) dampers are semiactive control devices that use MR fluids to produce controllable damp...

The present study focuses on the estimation of response building structure supplemented with superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) damper under stochastic seismic excitation. To this end, has been determined using linearization method random earthquakes and control efficiency SMA is compared yield damper. As output, top floor root mean square (rms) acceleration displacement are presented here i...

Abstract This paper explores the use of a novel tuned-inerto-viscous-hysteretic-damper (TIVhD) for reducing seismic response multi-storey building structures. The TIVhD is an inerter-based damper device consisting linear hysteretic connected in series with inerto-viscous damper. layout similar to that tuned-inerter-hysteretic-damper (TIhD) additional viscous damping element parallel inerter. de...

In this study, the performance of triangular added damping and stiffness (TADAS) dampers combined with curved dampers (Curved-TADAS damper) is evaluated in moment resisting steel frame (MRSF). These dampers are passive and install in the beam-column connection region. Variable parameters of this study involve the width of curved damper (50, 75 and 100 mm), the thickness of TADAS damper (5 and 1...

In classic passive suspension design, comfort and road handling are conflicting design criteria. An active or semi-active suspension offers the possibility to vary the damper characteristics along with the road profile. Such systems have discrete settings or are limited in bandwidth up to 10Hz. This paper discusses the development of a controller for a passenger car using a recently developed a...