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Semi-active Vibration Control of Soft-Storey Building with Magnetorheological Damper Under Seismic Excitation

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Purpose

Semi-active control is considered to be very interesting for its engineering sophistication/effectiveness like the active control strategy, however, requiring significantly lesser amount of control effort/input. In view of the devastating damages of soft-storey building structures in case of real-life seismic events, a study on semi-active vibration control for vulnerable structures like soft-storey buildings appears very interesting.

Methods

The magnetorheological (MR) damper is taken as the control device which produces control force through modulating its damping coefficient with the help of external input voltages in a semi-active control framework based on the widely used Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control. The Bouc–Wen hysteresis model is considered to calculate the control force. A realistic five-storey building with soft-storey at the ground is considered for validation. Besides, the performance of LQG control is compared with the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control.

Results

It is observed that LQG-based semi-active control strategy has been able to perform satisfactorily (in reducing soft-storey response) with the cost of surprisingly insignificant amount of control effort (with supply voltage in the range, 0–2.5 V) by reducing the peak response as 67.5%, 78.05%, 67.57%, 75%, and 51.02% against El Centro, Northridge, Kobe, Bhuj, and Tohoku earthquakes, respectively, while 68.85%, 79.42%, 65.26%, 73.38%, and 51.65% in case of root-mean-square response. Higher range of supply voltage is found to provide even better control performance.

Conclusion

In view of the satisfactory control performance, the semi-active control with MR dampers using LQG control is well encouraging in protecting the highly vulnerable soft-storey building structures under seismic events.

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Bhowmik, K., Debnath, N. Semi-active Vibration Control of Soft-Storey Building with Magnetorheological Damper Under Seismic Excitation. J. Vib. Eng. Technol. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42417-024-01292-5

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