Rocking motion of rigid blocks and their coupling with tuned sloshing dampers

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baratta, A ^a   Corbi, I ^a   Corbi, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Control of vibrations; Laboratory experiments; Numerical investigation; Rocking motion; Structural dynamics; Tuned liquid dampers; Unilateral rigid model

Indexed keywords

CONTROL OF VIBRATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; RIGID MODEL; ROCKING MOTION; TUNED LIQUID DAMPERS;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DYNAMIC LOADS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

LIQUID SLOSHING;

EID: 84858379338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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