Vibration Control and Isolation Systems for Civil Engineering Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 May 2024) | Viewed by 2117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vibration control; vibration isolation; vibration absorber; smart structures; experimental modal testing; structural health monitoring; railway bridge dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Civil engineering structures, like bridges, high-rise buildings, chimneys, stay cables, and wind turbines, are prone to vibrations when subjected to dynamic loads, e.g., passing vehicles, pedestrians, wind, sea waves, and earthquake loads, which may cause structural failure, discomfort to occupants, and the malfunction of the installed equipment. Hence, the mitigation of structural vibrations has always been a major concern amongst structural engineers. One of the effective means to reduce the dynamic response of tower-like structures is the application of vibration damping devices, e.g., tuned dampers. In practical applications, passive, semi-active, and active vibration control systems are used.
In addition, vibration isolation systems are applied to different kinds of engineering structures, e.g., basements of buildings, railway tracks, or the foundations of scanning electron microscopes, to mitigate the vibration energy transfer from the ground-excited base to the structure to be vibration-isolated.
This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions on vibration damping and isolation systems for civil engineering applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: the development of vibration control systems; the development of vibration isolation systems; novel passive, semi-active or active tuned dampers; base isolation systems; the application of vibration control systems to CE structures; the application of vibration isolation systems to CE structures; smart structures; smart components; the damping of earthquake-induced vibrations; the damping of wind-induced vibrations; the damping of train-induced vibrations; the damping of pedestrian-induced vibrations; mechanical inverter; semi-active dampers; and active dampers.
Dr. Michael Reiterer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vibration control
- vibration absorber
- tuned damper
- inerter
- bridges
- wind turbines
- footbridges
- railway bridges
- earthquake-induced
- train-induced
- wind-induced
- pedestrian-induced
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