Abstract: A control strategy based on the combination of feedforward and feedback gain controls (an open-closed loop) is presented for the reduction of the displacement response of the shear frame model of tall buildings to random ...

Abstract: A reliability analysis of antenna towers against cumulative fatigue damage failure is presented for the gustiness of wind. Fatigue damage is evaluated by the S-N curve approach using Palmgren-Miner's rule. Application of ...

Abstract: A fatigue reliability analysis of suspension bridges due to the gustiness of the wind velocity is presented by combining overall concepts of bridge aerodynamics, fatigue analysis, and reliability analysis. For this purpose, ...

Abstract: A nonlinear continuous sliding mode control strategy is presented to control the response of building frames to random ground motion. The control mechanism uses an active tuned mass damper placed at the top of the building ...

Abstract: For determining the stochastic response and stability of a strongly nonlinear single-degree-of-freedom system using the stochastic averaging technique, the size of excitations should be small such that the response of the ...

Abstract: Under many sea states, the marine risers behave in a quasi-static manner. The statistics of the response of the marine risers to random sea states producing quasi-static loading is determined ...

Abstract: A semiactive tuned mass damper (STMD) system with variable damping is used to control the flutter instability of long-span suspension bridges. For this purpose, a combined vertical and torsional model of a TMD system, which ...

Abstract: An iterative frequency domain method for determining the response of articulated towers to first order wave and current induced forces is presented. The application of the method is illustrated ...

Abstract: The efficiency of some recently developed integration schemes, namely, Hilber’s ∝-method, collocation schemes and large time step integration schemes developed by Argyris, is evaluated by applying ...

Abstract: Submarine pipelines are many a time buried into a jet-blasted channel in the seabed. Seismic response of such buried pipelines are investigated in this paper. The earthquake is considered as ...