In this study, the control perfomances of Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) and Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) are evaluated and compared for seismically excited structures. Results show that TLCD is more effective than TMD for interstory drift control while TLCD is as effective as TMD for acceleration control. In special, it is shown that interstory drifts are maximally controlled in lower floors and accelerations are reduced most in upper floors. This indicates that TLCD is an effective controller for earthquake-induced structures in terms of structural safety as well as serviceability.

This paper concern the performance of tuned mass damper (TMD) and dynamic behaviour of TMD controlled structure considering constitutive material model. A three-storied reinforced concrete frame is modelled using OpenSees for this study. Considering the non-linear materials model, the performance of the TMD not only rely on the mass, stiffness and damping of the system but also on the parameter to be controlled by TMD and the input ground motion types. For this reason in this study some practical, sine sweep and damped sine sweep are considered as input excitation to the evaluate exact dynamic behaviour of TMD controlled structure.

In spite of bulk literature about the tuning of TMD, the effectiveness of TMD in reducing the seismic response of engineering structures is still in a row. This paper deals with the optimum tuning parameters of a passive TMD and simulated on MATLAB with a ten-story numerical shear building. A weighted multi-objective optimization method based on computer experiment consisting of coupled with central composite design(CCD) central composite design and response surface methodology(RSM) was applied to find out the optimum tuning parameters of TMD. After the optimization, the so-conceived TMD turns out to be optimal with respect to the specific seismic event, hence allowing for an optimum reduction in seismic response. The method was employed on above structure by assuming first the El Centro seismic input as a sort of benchmark excitation, and then additional recent strong-motion earthquakes. It is found that the RSM based weighted multi-objective optimized damper improves frequency responses and root mean square displacements of the structure without TMD by 31.6% and 82.3% under El Centro earthquake, respectively, and has an equal or higher performance than the conventionally designed dampers with respect to frequency responses and root mean square displacements and when applied to earthquakes.

Multi-objective optimization coupled with GA-ANN Metamodeling Method and NSGAⅡ was implemented to optimize TMD installed on 10 story structure under El Centro earthquake. Layer number and nodes of ANN were optimized by use of genetic algorithm and NSGA-Ⅱalgorithm was applied to solve multi-objective optimization problem prepared by GA-ANN metamodel. It is found that the GA-ANN multi-objective optimized damper improved frequency responses and root mean square displacements of the structure without TMD by 34.7% and 76.4% under El Centro earthquake, respectively.

Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) and viscoelastic damper (VED) is a well-known vibration absorbing equipment in the civil engineering realm. Although the dampers are typically used separately, combined use of dampers worth investigation. For that purpose, a numerical model of multi-story building equipped with TMD and VED was developed using finite element software SAP2000. In this study, modal parameter based distribution of hybrid damper system (HDS) using Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) and viscoelastic damper (VED) together has been adopted to reduce the seismic response of the structure.

As part of a project intending to develop an energy-producing tuned mass damper using piezoelectric elements, a prototype has been manufactured to validate its efficiency and find the optimal arrangement of the system. This paper presents the preparation of the prototype enabling to perform experimentally parametric studies.

Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) is a prominent mean of controlling structural vibration. Typically the TMDs are installed at the top of the structure. In this study, the effectiveness of the multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMD) distributed along with the height of structure is investigated for seismic loading. A ten storey building with lateral degree of freedom is modeled with distributed tuned mass dampers in the platform of MatLab R2010a. Though the first mode of a MDOF system dominates in response of the structure, it is also observed that the other mode can also have a significant role in the response reduction. Suitable location for the installation of the TMDs and there tuning frequencies are selected based on the mode shape and frequencies of the uncontrolled structure respectively. It is observed that distributed TMD is more effective than Single TMD and Multiple TMD installed at top of the structure in response reduction.

Vortex shedding occurred at relatively low mean wind velocities between 13m/s and 16m/s in the 2nd Jindo grand bridge. To control the vortex shedding Multiple Tuned Mass Damper(MTMD) was installed in the mid span. The control effects of MTMD was verified by assessing the damping ratio before and after installing MTMD. This paper present the evaluation of damping ratio of a cable- stayed bridge based on measuring data through unified remote monitoring system.

지진동에 대처하기 위한 구조물의 능동제어기를 설계할 때, 모델링의 오차 및 외란의 불확실성을 무시하고 진행하면 제어성능이 크게 퇴화될 수 있다. 심지어 시스템 전체가 불안정하게 되어 제진이 불가능하게 될 가능성도 배제할 수 없다. 본 연구의목적은 슬라이딩 모드제어기(SMC)라 불리는 비선형제어기의 제어성능을 TMD가 장착된 구조물에 설계하여 그 적용 가능성을검토하는 것이다. 이때 가진 외란은 FFT 해석으로 탁월주파수를 분석한 3개의 지진동이다. SMC로 제어한 결과, 구조물의 질량과 강성이 ±30% 섭동되어도 강인성을 유지하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 다만, 오버슈트가 증대되고 정정시간이 증가하는 등 과도응답성능은 다소 퇴화되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 전반적으로 SMC는 모델링 및외란의 불확실성에 대해 강인함을 유지하고 지진동을 효과적으로 제어하는 능동제어법으로 TMD 구조물과 결합시켜 지진동제어에 적용해 볼 수 있는 유용한 기법이라 판단된다

본 연구는 지진동을 받는 구조물의 응답을 제어하기 위한 하이브리드 LQG 기법의 효용성을 조사하는 것이 목적이다. 입력 기진력은 엘센트로 지진이며 지반 가속도을 적절히 조절하여 구조물이 탄성 범위내에서 거동하도록 하였다. 수동 제어 장치로서 최상층에 설계된 TMD는 LQG 제어 알고리즘에 의해 통제되며 능동 제어기와 함께 하이브리드 제어 시스템을 이룬다. 이 기법을 통해 제어된 변위 응답을 비교한 결과 순수하게 능동 제어를 한 경우에 비해 훨씬 작은 크기의 입력으로도 변위를 제어할 수 있었으며 센서의 위치는 최상층에 부착하는 것이 가장 효과적인 것으로 나타났다.