Design, Construction and Testing of an Adaptive Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper

The objective of this thesis is to describe the design, construction, implementation and performance of a prototype adaptive pendulum tuned mass damper (APTMD). Furthermore the thesis aims at demonstrating the performance improvements obtained when the tuned mass damper (TMD) parameters are optimize...

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Main Author: Lourenco, Richard
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5776