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Semiactive control for a distributed mass damper system
Author(s) -
Fu Tat S.,
Johnson Erik A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
structural control and health monitoring
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1545-2263
pISSN - 1545-2255
DOI - 10.1002/stc.1888
Subject(s) - tuned mass damper , damper , engineering , control theory (sociology) , testbed , structural engineering , vibration control , control (management) , control engineering , computer science , vibration , aerospace engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Summary Recently, a distributed mass damper (DMD) has been proposed for architectural design considerations. By placing a mass damper in every story of a building, building designers can (1) integrate shading fins (that are typically installed in every story) and mass dampers to synergistically improve safety and energy efficiency, and (2) solve many architectural design and implementation issues ( e . g ., complications of a large damper mass near the top or the prime space of a building) with small damper masses. The passive DMD system was shown effective in response mitigation as a conventional tuned mass damper. In this paper, two semiactive DMD strategies are evaluated: a conventional semiactive clipped‐optimal LQR strategy, and a proposed gain‐scheduled semiactive DMD strategy. A conventional clipped‐optimal approach turns individual dampers off when their control forces are nondissipative, whereas the proposed strategy uses a redesigned control force, using an alternate control gain, to maximize the number of dampers exerting dissipative forces. A five‐story shear structure with one semiactive tuned mass damper per floor is used as a testbed to evaluate these control strategies. Both semiactive DMD strategies best the passive DMD system in reducing structural response; further, the semiactive gain‐scheduling strategy notably outperforms the established clipped‐optimal semiactive control strategy. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.