Abstract: Through minimization of the minimum values of the maximum displacement and acceleration dynamic magnification factors respectively, the optimum parameters of the multiple tuned mass dampers (MTMDs) with identical stiffness ...

Abstract: The problem of conditional simulation of non-Gaussian stochastic processes and fields has gained a significant interest recently because of its applications in many fields, such as wind engineering, ocean engineering, and ...

Abstract: The spectral representation method is widely used to generate nonstationary processeses. However, the operations of Cholesky decomposition in two directions and double summations are fairly time consuming. Moreover, the ...

Abstract: In this paper, a direct simulation algorithm is presented for the generation of a class of non-Gaussian stochastic processes according to target lower-order moments and prescribed power spectral density (PSD) function. The ...

Abstract: This paper presents a numerical analysis procedure, called spline semidiscretization procedure, for the unified analysis of orthotropic and/or isotropic thin plates and shallow shells of rectangular projection with the two ...

Abstract: Active multiple tuned mass dampers (AMTMD) consisting of many active tuned mass dampers (ATMDs) with uniform distribution of natural frequencies have been, for the first time here, proposed to attenuate undesirable ...

Abstract: Extensive numerical analysis indicates that the conventional spline functions semidiscretization analysis for orthotropic plates and shells reported by Li et al. (