Optimal damper placement for planar building frames using transfer functions

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 280-287

  Takewaki, I ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DAMPING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

PLANAR BUILDING FRAMES; STEEPEST DIRECTION SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 0034503769     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580050158     Document Type: Article

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