Session
Architecture, Spatial Planning and Civil Engineering
Description
Nowadays, destructive environmental forces such as earthquakes, tsunamis and winds accompanied with landslides, have mobilized the minds of the civil engineering communities around the world for finding new and better means for the protection of structures. As it is well known already, the conventional design approach, requires, that the structures passively resist environmental disturbances through a combination of strength, deformability and energy dissipation. Our experience shows that this is neither sufficient nor satisfactory. The basic role of passive energy dissipation devices when incorporated into a structure is to absorb or consume a portion of the input energy, thereby reducing energy dissipation demand on the primary structural members and minimizing possible structural damage. This paper represents an effort to strengthen the structural engineer’s interest on the problem of our modern times: passive energy dissipation. In this paper we have approached one of them: Tuned Mass Damper (TMD).
Keywords:
Absorption, Passive energy dissipation, Tuned Mass Damper, Optimal damping, Control
Session Chair
Gjergi Thomai
Session Co-Chair
Skender Kosumi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-23-3
First Page
226
Last Page
238
Location
Durres, Albania
Start Date
2-11-2013 3:00 PM
End Date
2-11-2013 3:15 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2013.22
Recommended Citation
Selmani, Feti and Stavileci, Musa, "Tuned Mass Damper: An Intelligent Device As A Protection System Instructural Engineering" (2013). UBT International Conference. 22.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2013/all-events/22
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Tuned Mass Damper: An Intelligent Device As A Protection System Instructural Engineering
Durres, Albania
Nowadays, destructive environmental forces such as earthquakes, tsunamis and winds accompanied with landslides, have mobilized the minds of the civil engineering communities around the world for finding new and better means for the protection of structures. As it is well known already, the conventional design approach, requires, that the structures passively resist environmental disturbances through a combination of strength, deformability and energy dissipation. Our experience shows that this is neither sufficient nor satisfactory. The basic role of passive energy dissipation devices when incorporated into a structure is to absorb or consume a portion of the input energy, thereby reducing energy dissipation demand on the primary structural members and minimizing possible structural damage. This paper represents an effort to strengthen the structural engineer’s interest on the problem of our modern times: passive energy dissipation. In this paper we have approached one of them: Tuned Mass Damper (TMD).