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Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment
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Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1092

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Felix Weber

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Maurer Switzerland GmbH, 8118 Pfaffhausen, Switzerland
Interests: damping; earthquake engineering; isolation; semi-active control; structural control; tuned mass damper; vibration; vibration absorber
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vibration monitoring and control of the built environment is crucial to guarantee the specified vibration comfort in buildings and footbridges due to wind, traffic and pedestrian excitations, the structural safety of buildings and bridges during seismic events, and the envisaged lifetime of the built environment in order to decelerate further global warming. To reach these goals, the further development of intelligent sensor networks and anti-vibration devices such as tuned mass dampers, fluid viscous dampers, hysteretic steel dampers, elastomeric dampers, shock transmission units, base isolators, expansion joints and combinations of these devices is needed. This Special Issue, which will be published in the Applied Sciences and Buildings journals, aims to collect research exploring the recent advances in these fields of research and development. This Special Issue therefore addresses the following topics (though this list is not exhaustive):

  • Intelligent monitoring and analysis of structural vibrations.
  • Further developed passive, semi-active, active and adaptive tuned mass dampers, hydraulic dampers, isolators, bearings and expansion joints.
  • Latest developments in vibration, earthquake, wind and noise engineering.
  • Latest developments in the developments of new materials needed in for structural dampers, isolators, bearings and joints.
  • Multi-physics modelling of civil engineering structures, including the modelling of the environmental conditions such as wind (CFD), climate, earthquake, soil–structure interaction, etc.
  • Probabilistic and risk-based modelling and control of the built environment (buildings, bridges, streets, chimneys, flag poles, etc.).

Submissions in the form of both original research and review articles are welcome. Contributions with experimentally validated models and methods are highly appreciated.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Buildings. 

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Felix Weber
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • damper
  • earthquake engineering
  • friction damping
  • hysteretic damping
  • isolator
  • monitoring
  • negative stiffness
  • soil structure interaction
  • structural control
  • structural dynamics
  • tuned mass damper
  • vibration absorber
  • wind engineering

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Calibration of Viscous Damping–Stiffness Control Force in Active and Semi-Active Tuned Mass Dampers for Reduction of Harmonic Vibrations
by Marcin Maślanka
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(21), 11645; https://doi.org/10.3390/app132111645 - 25 Oct 2023
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Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are commonly used to mitigate vibrations in civil structures. There is a growing demand for new solutions that offer similar effectiveness as TMDs but with reduced mass. In this context, this paper investigates active (ATMD) and semi-active (STMD) tuned [...] Read more.
Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are commonly used to mitigate vibrations in civil structures. There is a growing demand for new solutions that offer similar effectiveness as TMDs but with reduced mass. In this context, this paper investigates active (ATMD) and semi-active (STMD) tuned mass dampers with relative displacement and velocity feedback. The control force of the ATMD is assumed to be the sum of viscous damping and either positive or negative stiffness forces. This control force is calibrated for a specific parameter K such that the effectiveness of the ATMD in reducing harmonic vibrations matches that of the TMD with K times larger mass. The optimal calibration is derived based on the mathematical reformulation of an existing optimal acceleration feedback control algorithm. The control approach for the ATMD is then applied to the STMD. Subsequently, the sub-optimal STMD is analyzed, with a focus on its limitations arising from the clipping of active forces. Finally, the paper presents a calibration of the STMD using a numerical optimization method. It is demonstrated that the maximum achievable performance of the numerically optimized STMD matches that of the TMD with three times larger mass. Full article
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