Optimal design and performance of liquid column mass dampers for rotational vibration control of structures under white noise excitation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 524-534

  Taflanidis, Alexandros A ^a,b   Angelides, Demos C ^a   Manos, George C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

LCVA; Passive control performance; Rotational vibration; TLCD

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WHITE NOISE;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; LIQUID COLUMN VIBRATION ABSORBERS (LCVA); STRUCTURAL ROTATIONAL VIBRATIONS; TUNED LIQUID COLUMN DAMPERS (TLCD);

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DAMPING;

EID: 14844356439     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.11.011     Document Type: Article

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