Author(s)

Y. Inoue, Y. Mukai & E. Tachibana

Abstract

A "quasi-optimizing control" method is proposed as a practical programming algorithm for aseismic response control systems of building structures. By limiting control forces of each control device into a few kinds of trial control forces, the all values of the set of "digital-index functions" for all combinations of predicted structural response are computed on step-by-step, and the most adequate control forces are determined as the quasi-optimal control forces by finding out the set that makes the digital-index function to be minimum. A three-degrees-of-freedom system arranged an active brace on each story is adopted for investigating this control algori

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