In this paper, a control strategy to reduce the vibrational response of adjacent buildings under seismic excitation is presented. The proposed strategy combines passive linking elements with an active decentralized H∞ control system. The overall active-passive control system admits decentralized design and operation, and achieves an excellent vibrational reduction when the active control system...

In this paper the semi-active control is achieved by a base isolation system. The magnetorheological dampers (MRD) hysteretic force is described by models based on nonlinear differential equation Bouc-Wen. The Bouc-Wen model is able to capture, in an analytical form, a range of shapes of hysteretic cycles which match the behavior of a wide class of nonlinear systems. In order to reduce the seis...

Expansion of the offshore wind industry in seismically active areas has raised concerns regarding structural integrity turbines under earthquake loading. This paper details a 3D finite element study to investigate behaviour structure, and particular transition piece (TP), seismic loads. The work focuses on equivalent grouted connection TP-less designs, selected as promising design solutions for...

It is important to reduce the seismic response of houses in order to prevent from collapse of houses. Some control methods for seismic response of houses are developed. The oil dampers using the flow resistance of the silicon oil have been developed. In this paper, a Magnet Oil Damper (MOD) in which permanent magnets are added to the oil damper is proposed in order to improve the performance of...

Four existing methods to calculate critical separation distances between adjacent nonlinear hysteretic structures are evaluated through Monte-Carlo simulations, for which seismic excitation is characterized as a nonstationary random process. All the methods use the well-known Double Difference Combination rule, but follow different approaches to calculate the correlation coefficient ρ. Results ...