Publication:3895071

zbMath0448.73084MaRDI QIDQ3895071

Firdaus E. Udwadia, S. F. Masri, George A. Bekey

Publication date: 1980

zbMATH Keywords

active control; ground shaking; high amplitude; ordinary differential equations system; heuristic control strategy; keep minimum spacing between pulses to be of fundamental period; minimize cost functional; pulse the system adequatly; short duration pulses; simple building structure model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C20: Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics

74H45: Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics

86A15: Seismology (including tsunami modeling), earthquakes

93E20: Optimal stochastic control

74P99: Optimization problems in solid mechanics

74H50: Random vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics

74L05: Geophysical solid mechanics

68W99: Algorithms in computer science