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Active control schemes for aseismic base-isolated structures

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Active control schemes are used for the protection of base-isolated and seismically excited buildings. The desired control objective is to keep the whole structure arbitrarily close to its initial configuration prior to the earthquake. The proposed methods require control force application only at the base of the structure. The controllers developed may depend on information obtained from all the floors or just the first (base) floor alone.

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  1. National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Division of Computer Science, Zographou 15773, Athens, Greece e-mail: asoldat@cc.ece.ntua.gr, GR

    A. G. Soldatos

  2. Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Iera Odos 75, Botanikos, 11855 Athens, Greece e-mail: karvan@aua.gr, GR

    K. G. Arvanitis

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, TEI Iraklion Stavromenos, GR-71500 Iraklion, Crete, Greece e-mail: zacharen@stef.teiher.gr, GR

    E. C. Zacharenakis

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Received 13 September 2000; accepted for publication 26 June 2001

Dedicated to the memory of Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos with our warmest prayers.

The first author wishes to thank Prof. G. Leitmann and Prof. E. Papadopoulos for the numerous helpful discussions. The same author is supported in part by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, NTUA, under the program Archimedes 65/1017.

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Soldatos, A., Arvanitis, K. & Zacharenakis, E. Active control schemes for aseismic base-isolated structures. Archive of Applied Mechanics 72, 147–159 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-001-0192-7

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