Robust reliability-based design of liquid column mass dampers under earthquake excitation using an analytical reliability approximation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3525-3537

  Taflanidis, Alexandros A ^a   Beck, James L ^a   Angelides, Demos C ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Liquid column vibration absorber; Model uncertainty; Robust reliability based design; Statistical linearization; Tuned liquid column damper; Tuned mass damper

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY;

LIQUID COLUMN VIBRATION ABSORBERS; TUNED LIQUID COLUMN DAMPER;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COLUMN; DAMPING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 36148946445     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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