High-fidelity control of a seismic shake table

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1235-1254

  Kuehn, J ^a   Epp, D ^a   Patten, W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feed forward control; Hydraulic; Motion simulator; Receding horizon control; Seismic; Shake table

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SEISMOLOGY;

FEED FORWARD CONTROL ALGORITHM; SEISMIC MOTION SIMULATOR; SEISMIC SHAKE TABLE;

SEISMOGRAPHS;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROL SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; SEISMIC DESIGN; SHAKING TABLE TEST;

EID: 0033230846     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9845(199911)28:11<1235::AID-EQE864>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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