A Study on Connected Control Mechanism for A Single Building Divided into Four Internally

Abstract

The connected control method (CCM) utilized reaction force between buildings as damping force by using connecting springs and dampers. The effectiveness of CCM has already been established in previous studies. In this paper, integrated connected control method (ICCM) with an experimental high-rise building split into four substructures is presented for a vibration control method to mitigate structural vibration by using internal damping force by CCM. To examine the effectiveness of ICCM, an experimental structure model split into four substructure is build and four dampers are introduced to realize experimental ICCM. Using this model, the effectiveness ICCM is investigated through computer simulations and experiments.