Abstract: To simplify the procedure of designing viscous dampers for stay cables in bridges, a universal estimation curve is proposed that relates the modal damping ratio of the cable with attached damper, the mode number, the damper ...

Abstract: To suppress cable vibrations, active stiffness control, which changes the tension as a positive use of parametric excitation, is studied. An optimal algorithm is obtained from energy analysis ...

Abstract: The influence of the spectral bandwidth on the probabilistic structure of the joint distribution of wave heights and periods is analyzed by means of simulated wave records. In particular, the ...

Abstract: A new kind of passive mechanical damper, tuned liquid damper (TLD). is studied that relies upon the motion of shallow liquid in a rigid tank for changing the dynamic characteristics of a structure and dissipating its ...