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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 60
OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and B. Kumar
Paper VI.2

Improved Control of Structures by Time-Delayed Algorithms

A. Baratta and O. Corbi

Department of "Scienza delle Costruzioni", University of Naples, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Baratta, O. Corbi, "Improved Control of Structures by Time-Delayed Algorithms", in B.H.V. Topping, B. Kumar, (Editors), "Optimization and Control in Civil and Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 159-168, 1999. doi:10.4203/ccp.60.6.2
Abstract
In recent years a new control device to attenuate the vibrations induced in mechanical systems by harmonic excitations has been presented. This opportunity has invited the idea to build up a procedure allowing to identify a closed-loop control algorithm working on the whole record of the response time-history, with coefficients distributed on a suitably chosen range of frequencies, designed in way to control each harmonic component of the forcing function, possibly verifying some optimality criterion.

The procedure has been tested, proving that the results agree with the theoretical treatment, remaining open the question of the choose of the best control strategy for single harmonics.

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