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

Figure 5

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