Vibration Control of Flexible Structures Arranged in Parallel by Using using Coupled Building Control Mechanism

Abstract

This paper proposes a new vibration control method for multiple tall buildings connected with actively controlled bridges. While the effectiveness of presented method applied to buildings with different heights and dynamic properties has been already established, it has also been shown that the method is not capable for buildings with the same height and dynamic properties, because no reaction force can be obtained between two same buildings. To overcome this limitation, the new method to locate the active controlled bridge to join different height of two buildings is introduced. The effectiveness of the method is confirmed by simuration and experimental investigation.