The purpose of this study is to examine the application and effectiveness of tuned mass dampers for reducing cabinet vibration in plants. Cabinet with lower structural rigidity than plant subject to seismic design standards is susceptible to resonance. SolidWorks was used for 3D modeling of the cabinet, and ANSYS Workbench was used to create a mesh. The vibration characteristics of the cabinet were investigated through modal analysis, and the possibility of resonance and vibration reduction performance of the cabinet were evaluated. The number of modes in the cabinet was set to 100, and the frequency and modal participation mass ratio of each mode were calculated. In order to examine the possibility of vibration reduction by tuned mass dampers, the vibration response characteristics of cabinets with and without tuned mass dampers were compared. The analysis results showed that the third mode had a significant effect on the dynamic behavior of the cabinet and that the modal participation effective mass ratio was larger than that of other vibration modes. And as the mass of the tuned mass damper increased, the vibration response of the cabinet decreased significantly, and the peak value of the cabinet decreased by up to 52%.

In this paper, a tuned mass damper is applied to improve the seismic performance of the lighting tower. The light tower has a high slenderness ratio, low lateral stiffness and top mass is large structure so this has weak for vibration characteristics. The optimized damping coefficient and stiffness were applied to the four lighting tower models analyzed. As a result, the light tower with TMD showed a tendency to reduce the displacement response significantly against the earthquake.

Multi-objective optimization using response surface methodology-based surrogate model was employed to find optimal design parameter of TMD installed on structure under the El Centro earthquake. 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.