Wind turbines (WTs) are basically controlled by varying the generator load torque (with the so-called torque control) and the blade pitch angles (with the so-called pitch control) based on measurement of the generator shaft ...

In this paper, a control strategy to reduce the vibrational response of adjacent buildings under seismic excitation is presented. The proposed strategy combines passive linking elements with an active decentralized ...

A backstepping-based adaptive control is designed for a class of one degree of freedom hysteretic system. The true hysteretic behavior does not need to be known for the controller design. A polynomial description is assumed ...

This article proposes an adaptive predictive control design technique to mitigate the displacement in a hysteretical base-isolated system seismically perturbed. The obtained predictive control law is based on the ...

A hybrid reasoning system is developed for damage assessment of structures. The system combines the use of a model of the structure with a knowledge-based reasoning scheme to evaluate if damage is present, its severity ...

Efficient flood management requires accurate real time forecasts to allow early warnings, real time control of hydraulics structures or other actions. Commercially available computing tools typically use, for flow or level ...

Active, passive and semi-active controls have been extensively considered to improve the protection of structures against earthquakes. In this paper, we present a new nonlinear damper, which is then applied to a three-dimensional ...

FBGs are excellent strain sensors, because of its low size and multiplexing capability. Tens to hundred of sensors may be embedded into a s tructure, as it has already been demonstrated. Nevertheless, they only afford ...