Abstract: As a passive control device, tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are widely used in structural vibration control. Due to the nonlinear characteristics of a TMD, it is important to consider nonlinearity in the design process. In this ...

Abstract: In practical engineering, a tuned mass damper (TMD) inherently exhibits nonlinear behavior owing to its large displacement or the application of a limiting stopper. This paper studies the control performance of a TMD when ...

Abstract: Clutching inerter damper (CID) is an innovative damping device with inherent nonlinearity. In this paper, the description of the CID system is firstly made followed by the analyses of free vibration and harmonic response. ...

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamic performance of two kinds of time-domain piecewise linear stiffness systems, a piecewise positive-stiffness system (PPS) and a piecewise negative-stiffness system (PNS). The PPS is formulated ...

Abstract: Story isolation systems (SIS) have great application potential in the seismic design of some special structures. This paper studied the seismic control performance of SIS using a tuned mass damper inerter (TMDI) considering ...

Abstract: Assessing the postdisaster seismic responses of the as-built bridges based on their real-time status is critical to maintaining their seismic capacity and planning retrofits. This task requires a fast and accurate ...

Abstract: Structural system identification has attracted much attention in the structural dynamic field over the past decades. For identifying parameters of the inelastic response of a structure under ground shaking, the Kalman ...