Tuned mass damper (TMD) is a popular vibration absorber. To improve the seismic
protection performance of a bi-directional passive TMD, a bi-directional semi-active TMD …

A review of structural control focused on controllers is presented here. Several essential
considerations must be addressed while designing a controller for the semi-active control …

Structural systems often show nonlinear behavior under severe excitations generated by
natural hazards. In that condition, the restoring force becomes highly nonlinear showing …

Vibration control of irregular structures subjected to earthquake excitations is a complex civil
engineering problem. Base isolation has been used as an earthquake-protective system …

Base isolation is an effective earthquake protection strategy for building structures. However,
the base-isolation floor may undergo large displacements under earthquake excitations. To …

This paper presents the problem definition and guidelines for a benchmark control problem
in real-time hybrid simulation for a seismically excited building, to appear in a Special Issue …

Fractional order PID (FOPID) controllers are introduced as a general form of classical PID
controllers using fractional calculus. As this controller provides good disturbance rejection …

Sample controllers for a three‐dimensional smart base‐isolated building benchmark
problem with linear and frictional isolation system are presented in this paper. A Kalman …

The effectiveness of the multi-mode control of seismically excited building installed with
distributed multiple tuned mass dampers (d-MTMDs) is investigated by comparing dynamic …

This paper presents a novel negative stiffness device (NSD) for the seismic protection of the
base isolated benchmark building in near fault earthquake. The benchmark structure has …