Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Active damping. Structural control. Plant description. Equations of structural dynamics. Collocated control system. Active damping with collocated system. Decentralized control with collocated pairs. -- Active isolation. Relaxation isolator. Sky-hook damper. Force feedback. Six-axis isolator. Vehicle active suspension. Semi-active suspension. -- A comparison of passive, active and hybrid control. System description. The dynamic vibration absorber. Active mass damper. Hybrid control. Shear control. Force actuator displacement sensor. Displacement actuator, force sensor. -- Vibration control methods and devices. Classification of vibration control methods. Construction of active dynamic absorber. Control devices for wind excitation control in civil structures. Real towers using the connected control method. Application of active dynamic absorber for controlling vibration of single-d.o.f. systems. -- Reduced-order model for structural control. Modeling of distributed structures. Spillover. The lumped modeling method. Method of equivalent mass estimation. Modeling of tower-like structure. Modeling of plate structures. Modeling of a bridge tower. Robust vibration control for neglected higher modes. -- Active control of civil structures. Classification of structural control for buildings. Modeling and vibration control for tower structures. Active vibration control of multiple buildings connected with active control bridges in response to large earthquakes. Vibration control for real triple tower using CCM. Vibration control of bridge towers using a lumped modeling approach.

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