Research developments in vibration control of structures using passive tuned mass dampers

S Elias, V Matsagar - Annual Reviews in Control, 2017 - Elsevier
A state-of-the-art review on the response control of structures mainly using the passive tuned
mass damper (s)(TMD/s) is presented. The review essentially focuses on the response …

Reliability-based optimization of supported pendulum TMDs' nonlinear track shape using Padé approximants

LFF Miguel, S Elias, AT Beck - Engineering Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Supported Pendulum Tuned Mass Dampers (PTMDs) are vibration absorbers
whose mass is constrained to oscillate along a curved path, enabling to use gravity as a …

Reliability analysis and design optimization of nonlinear structures

P Ni, J Li, H Hao, W Yan, X Du, H Zhou - Reliability engineering & system …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliability analysis and design optimization of structures have been gaining a significant
amount of attention in recent decades. Most of the current studies are based on linear …

An efficient reliability-based design of TMD & MTMD in nonlinear structures under uncertainty

A Shamsaddinlou, S Shirgir, A Hadidi, BF Azar - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the methods to improve the performance of tuned mass dampers is to combine the
primary and auxiliary mass dampers in series, known as multiple tuned mass dampers. The …

On the optimal design and robustness of spatially distributed tuned mass dampers

MMA da Costa, DA Castello, C Magluta… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Tuned-Mass-Dampers (TMD) have been widely used to suppress undesirable
structural vibrations within a user-defined frequency band. Nevertheless, the performance of …

SESC: A new subset simulation method for rare-events estimation

M Rashki - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
A sequential space conversion (SESC) method is proposed to solve complex and high
dimensional rare event problems. While the conventional Subset Simulation (SubSim) …

Bottom up surrogate based approach for stochastic frequency response analysis of laminated composite plates

S Dey, T Mukhopadhyay, A Spickenheuer… - Composite …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents an efficient uncertainty quantification (UQ) scheme for frequency
responses of laminated composite plates. A bottom up surrogate based approach is …

Incorporating Nelder-Mead Simplex as an Accelerating Operator to Improve the Performance of Metaheuristics in Nonlinear System Identification

S Farahmand-Tabar, S Shirgir - Handbook of Formal Optimization, 2023 - Springer
This chapter explores the use of Nelder-Mead simplex (NMS) as an accelerating operator to
improve the performance of metaheuristic algorithms, which are commonly used for solving …

General routine of suppressing single vibration mode by multi-DOF tuned mass damper: application of three-DOF

W Ma, Y Yang, J Yu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
The multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) tuned mass damper (TMD) has demonstrated a more
effective performance than single-DOF and multiple SDOF TMDs. For a damping mass in the …

Reliability-based acoustical topology optimization of mufflers under noise frequency and temperature uncertainties

JK Lee, I Lee, JW Lee - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
A reliability-based topology optimization method is proposed to optimally design mufflers
under noise frequency and temperature uncertainties. The optimal mufflers designed with …