• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.113-123
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• 2016

This paper is concerned with an experimental research to control of random vibration caused by external loads specially in cable-stayed bridges which tend to be structurally flexible. For the vibration control, we produced a model structure modelled on Seohae Grand Bridge, and we designed a shear type MR damper. On the center of its middle span, we placed a shear type MR damper which was to control its vibration and also acquire its structural responses such as displacement and acceleration at the same site. The experiments concerning controlling vibration were performed according to a variety of theories including un-control, passive on/off control, and clipped-optimal control. Its control performance was evaluated in terms of the absolute maximum displacements, RMS displacements, the absolute maximum accelerations, RMS accelerations, and the total power required to control the bridge which differ from each different experiment method. Among all the methods applied in this paper, clipped-optimal control method turned out to be the most effective to reduces of displacements, accelerations, and external power. Finally, It is proven that the clipped-optimal control method was effective and useful in the vibration control employing a semi-active devices such MR damper.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.85-94
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• 2011

This paper is concerned to constitute a semi-active realtime feedback vibration control system and evaluate it through experiments in order to control in realtime the vibration externally generated, specially on the bridges which is structurally flexible. For the experiment of vibration control, we built a model bridge structure of Seohae Grand Bridge in a 1/200 reduced form and inflicted El-centro wave on the model structure also in a reduced force considering the lab condition. The externally excited vibration was to be controled by placing a shear type MR damper vertically on the center of bridge span, and the response (displacement and acceleration) of structure was to be acquired by placing LVDT and Accelerometer at the same time. As for the experiment concerning controlling vibration, a realtime feedback vibration control experiments were performed under each different condition largely such as un-control, passive on/off control, Lyapunov stability theory control, and Clipped-optimal control. Its control performance under different condition was quantitatively evaluated in terms of the peak absolute displacements, the peak absolute accelerations and the power required for control on the center of span. The results of experiments proved that the Lyapunov control and clipped-iptimal control were effective to decrease the displacement and acceleration of the structure, and also to decrease the power consumption to a great extent. Finally, the semi-active realtime feedback vibration control system constituted in this research was proven to be an effective way to control and manage the vibration generated on bridge structure.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.729-737
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• 2014

A study has been carried out that effectively controls the vibration of asymmetric cable-stayed bridges caused by earthquakes with MR dampers. In order to enhance the practical serviceability of MR dampers, an asymmetric cable-stayed bridge structure has been designed and produced, and a MR damper has been produced so as to have this bridge structure controlled appropriately. An experiment that controls vertical and horizontal vibrations has been carried out by exciting the asymmetric cable-stayed bridge in the horizontal direction with the El-centro seismic wave. The control performance of the MR damper has been evaluated under the five control conditions in the experiments of vibration control in each direction. As a result of the experiment, MR dampers were proved to control vibrations more effectively when either Lyapunov control algorithm or Clipped-optimal control algorithm was used to control vibrations of the asymmetric cable-stayed bridge caused by earthquakes. In addition, different controlling effects were found in vibration controls in vertical and horizontal directions due to the asymmetry of the structure and the horizontal excitation. With such controlling effects, semi-active MR dampers are evaluated to effectively control vibrations caused by earthquakes in flexible and asymmetric structures such as asymmetric cable-stayed bridges.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.91-98
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• 2013

A multi-input single-output (MISO) semi-active control systems were studied by many researchers. For more improved vibration control performance, a structure requires more than one control device. In this paper, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) semi-active fuzzy controller has been proposed for vibration control of seismically excited small-scale buildings. The MIMO fuzzy controller was optimized by multi-objective genetic algorithm. For numerical simulation, five-story example building structure is used and two MR dampers are employed. For comparison purpose, a clipped-optimal control strategy based on acceleration feedback is employed for controlling MR dampers to reduce structural responses due to seismic loads. Numerical simulation results show that the MIMO fuzzy control algorithm can provide superior control performance to the clipped-optimal control algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.648-654
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• 2007

This paper presents the result of a comparison study to evaluate the performance of several semi-active control algorithms for use with large-scale MR damper applied to a building structure under seismic excitation using real-time hybrid test method. Recently, a variety of semi-active control algorithm studies are developed and generally evaluated the performance by using numerical analysis. In this paper real-time hybrid test method was applied to performance evaluating of semi-active control algorithms including a clipped optimal algorithm and the modulated homogeneous friction algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.403-410
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• 2001

고층 빌딩의 풍하중에 의한 진동을 제어하기 위하여 MR 유체감쇠기를 이용한 반능동 제어 시스템의 설계에 대하여 연구하였다. 제안된 설계기법의 효율성을 검증하기 위하여 3차 ASCE benchma가 구조물을 대상으로 수치 모의 해석을 수행하였다. 유전자 알고리즘을 사용하여 MR 감쇠기의 76층 빌딩내에서의 최적위치와 용량을 결정하였으며, clipped optimal control 제어기법을 사용하여 가속도 되먹임 구조를 갖는 MR 감쇠기의 제어 알고리즘을 구성하였다. 수치 모의 해석 결과로부터 MR 감쇠기는 ATMD와 유사한 제어 성능을 가지고 있으며 매우 작은 규모의 파워 시스템만으로 운영이 가능한 효율적이고 안정적인 시스템임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.72-77
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• 2001

고층 빌딩의 풍하중에 의한 진동을 제어하기 위하여 MR 유체감쇠기를 이용한 반능동 제어 시스템의 설계에 대하여 연구하였다. 제안된 설계기법의 효율성을 검증하기 위하여 ASCE benchmark 구조물을 대상으로 수치 모의 해석을 수행하였다. 유전자 알고리즘을 사용하여 MR 감쇠기의 76층 빌딩 내에서의 최적위치와 용량을 결정하였으며, clipped optimal control 제어기법을 사용하여 가속도 되먹임 구조를 갖는 MR 감쇠기의 제어 알고리즘을 구성하였다, 수치 모의 해석 결과로부터 MR 감쇠기는 ATMD와 유상한 제어 성능을 가지고 있으며 매우 작은 규모의 파워 시스템만으로 운영이 가능한 효율적이고 안정적인 제어 시스템임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.255-262
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• 2008

In this study, seismic response control performance of decentralized response-dependent MR damper which generates the control force using only the response of damper-installed floor, was experimentally investigated through the tests of a full-scale structure installed with large MR dampers. The performance of the decentralized control algorithm was compared to those of the centralized ones such as Lyapunov, modulated homogeneous friction, and clipped-optimal control. Hybrid mass damper were controlled to induce seismic response of the full-scale structure under El Centro earthquake. Experimental results indicated that the proposed decentralized MR damper provided superior or equivalent performance to centralized one in spite of using damper-installed floor response for calculating input voltage to MR damper.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.465-474
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• 2008

The real-time hybrid testing method(RT-HYTEM) is a structural testing technique in which the numerical integration of the equation of motion for a numerical substructure and the physical testing for an experimental substructure are performed simultaneously in real-time. This study presents the quantitative evaluation of the seismic performance of a building structure installed with an passive and semi-active MR damper by using RT-HYTEM. The building model that was identified from the force-vibration testing results of a real-scaled 5-story building is used as the numerical substructure, and an MR damper corresponding to an experimental substructure is physically tested by using the universal testing machine(UTM). The RT-HYTEM implemented in this study is validated because the real-time hybrid testing results obtained by application of sinusoidal and earthquake excitations and the corresponding analytical results obtained by using the Bouc-Wen model as the control force of the MR damper respect to input currents were in good agreement. Also for preliminary study, some semi-active control algorithms were applied to the MR damper in order to control the structural responses optimally. Comparing between the test results of semi-active control using RT-HYTEM and numerical analysis results show that the RT-HYTEM is more resonable than numerical analysis to evaluate the performance of semi-active control algorithms.