Abstract: Traditionally the usage of a tuned mass damper (TMD) is to improve the survivability of the primary structure under an extraordinary loading environment while the design loading condition is often described by a harmonic ...

Abstract: With an increasing tendency of the flood disaster frequency and intensity in China, risk analysis of design flood volume for the Three Gorges Dam Project (TGP) should be of paramount importance for about one-half of the ...

Abstract: In evaluating of the response of linear systems to arbitrary intermittent loadings, traditional methods have been exclusively conducted in the time domain where the time resolution must be carefully chosen. In this paper, ...

Abstract: In the evaluation of the global maximum response of a structure subjected to its design load, damping effects must be included; however, the structure damping is often uncertain. This study develops an efficient method to ...

Abstract: This study proposes iterative methods for updating damping and stiffness matrices of a finite-element model based on measured complex eigenvalues, i.e., poles, which could have been obtained accurately by using various ...