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 ...

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 ...

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 mitigate the vibrational response of adjacent buildings under seismic excitation is presented. The proposed strategy combines interbuilding passive actuators with active actuators ...

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 ...

Cuando se realiza cualquier movimiento de compuerta u otro mecanismo de control de un canal en lámina libre, se produce una respuesta del flujo que puede tardar mucho tiempo en notarse en el lugar del canal en que se generó ...

This article proposes a recent Adaptive Predictive (AP) control technique applied to a DC-DC buck converter. This converter topology has a wide range of applications in the current electronic and electrical systems that ...