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Predictive instantaneous optimal control of inelastic structures based on ground velocity
Author(s) -
Pang Miao,
Wong Kevin K. F.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the structural design of tall and special buildings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1541-7808
pISSN - 1541-7794
DOI - 10.1002/tal.297
Subject(s) - acceleration , peak ground acceleration , computer science , control (management) , control theory (sociology) , time domain , frequency domain , algorithm , engineering , ground motion , structural engineering , physics , artificial intelligence , classical mechanics , computer vision
One of the challenges confronting structural engineers in structural control is to find more efficient control algorithms to ensure better and more reliable control results to protect structures against the damaging effects of destructive environmental forces. In this paper, a simple control algorithm, namely the Predictive Instantaneous Optimal Control (PIOC) algorithm, is proposed by introducing a new state space form. Different from the classical ground acceleration‐based control algorithms, this new control algorithm uses earthquake ground velocity as the input. Since the earthquake ground velocity is not at high frequency as compared with the ground acceleration, it can be predicted at certain time steps beforehand in real‐time domain with higher accuracy. This ensures the synchronous execution of the proposed PIOC algorithm with real‐time application of the control force. To capture the damaging effects during earthquake ground motions, the force analogy method is used to characterize structures responding in the inelastic domain. Numerical studies are performed to compare the structural response with and without control using both single degree of freedom and multi‐degree of freedom structural models. Results show that the PIOC algorithm is effective in reducing the structural response under earthquake excitation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.