Optimal damper placement for critical excitation

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-325

  Takewaki, I ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILISTIC CRITICAL EXCITATION; STEEPEST DIRECTION SEARCH ALGORITHM; STOCHASTIC RESPONSE INDEX;

DAMPING;

EID: 0034298411     PISSN: 02668920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-8920(99)00033-8     Document Type: Article

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