Efficient Damping and Isolation Systems for Civil Structures

• Other Authors: Weber, Felix (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; isolation; high damping rubber bearing; low shape factor; performance test; experiment; three-dimensional (3D) seismic isolation; vertical seismic isolation device; disc spring; helical coil spring; steel damper; laminated rubber bearing; seismic energy dissipation; nuclear power plant equipment; seismic isolation frequency; hysteretic behavior; cable; control; damping; semi-active; negative stiffness; vibration; liquid storage tank; MetaFoundation; time domain analysis; earthquake; passive control; stop band; suspended ceiling systems; passively controlled structure; pulley tackle mechanism; shake table test; simulation analysis; tower-like structures; tuned liquid gas damper; elastic membrane; gas spring; gas volume; SA-TLGD; TLCGD; TLCD; TMD; inerter; optimization; TMDI; vibration mitigation; tuned sloshing damper; TSD; tuned mass damper; numerical simulation; coupled simulation; computational wind engineering; CWE; hysteresis; internal resonances; nonlinear modal interaction; n/a
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Civil engineering structures may vibrate due to different sources of excitations such as earthquakes, wind, traffic, humans, etc. The resulting vibrations may not be acceptable from the perspective of vibration comfort or can even impair the structure's safety. Depending on the excitation mechanism, anti-vibration measures range from increasing the structural damping using local dampers, decoupling the structure from the disturbance using vibration isolators and compensating for the excitation forces using vibration compensators. The Special Issue "Efficient Damping and Isolation Systems for Civil Structures" presents some of the recent advances in the associated fields of research and development.