Papers Published

1. U Aldemir and H Gavin, Comparison of semi-active dampers in seismic isolation, Structures - A Structural Engineering Odyssey, Structures 2001 - Proceedings of the 2001 Structures Congress and Exposition, vol. 109 (2004) [doi] .
   (last updated on 2014/02/13)

   Abstract:
   Since the energy cost of active vibration control is an important problem and the performance of the passive devices is limited, semi-active control devices have received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we compare the performance of two pseudo-skyhook control methods; a bang-bang control and a continuous control to passive viscous control and the optimal semi-active control. Numerical results show that the proposed control rules perform almost as well as the optimal semi-active control and can overcome the deficiency of the passive viscous control at high frequency range. © 2004 ASCE.