Optimal Design of Complex Passive-Damping Systems for Vibration Control of Large Structures: An Energy-to-Peak Approach

Figure 3

Maximum absolute interstory drifts corresponding to the uncontrolled building (black line with rectangles) and the controlled building with the ideal state-feedback energy-to-peak controller defined by the gain matrix 𝐺_𝑠 (blue line with circles). The full scale North-South El Centro 1940 seismic record has been used as ground acceleration disturbance.