Abstract: An important objective of health monitoring systems for civil infrastructures is to identify the state of the structure and to detect the damage when it occurs. System identification and damage detection, based on measured ...

Abstract: An objective of the structural health monitoring system is to identify the state of the structure and to detect the damage when it occurs. Analysis techniques for damage identification of structures, based on vibration ...

Abstract: In this paper, an optimal nonlinear control law that is polynomial in terms of the states of the system is proposed for limiting the peak response of seismic-excited buildings. A performance index that is quadratic in ...

Abstract: The ability to detect damages online, based on vibration data measured from sensors, will ensure the reliability and safety of structures. Innovative data analysis techniques for the damage detection of structures have ...

Abstract: Among promising control strategies, the sliding mode control is particularly robust with respect to structural uncertainty. In this paper, a modified sliding mode control (MSMC) strategy using dynamic output feedback is ...

Abstract: Two multiobjective control strategies are presented and applied to the wind-excited benchmark problem. The first strategy, referred to as the energy-to-peak based controller, deals with a class of “energy-bounded” excitations, ...

Abstract: System identification and damage detection for structural health monitoring of civil infrastructures have received considerable attention recently. Time domain analysis methodologies based on measured vibration data, such ...

Abstract: A method of optimal open-loop critical-mode control has been applied to building structures excited by earthquake that is modeled as a nonstationary random process. The time dependent statistics of building response ...

Abstract: A critical review of classical optimal control algorithms is made with respect to the specific application of structural control under seismic excitations. With the earthquake ground acceleration being the major source of ...

Abstract: It is well-known that damage in a structure is a local phenomenon. Based on measured vibration data from sensors, the detection of a local structural damage requires the finite-element formulation for the equations of ...