Research Article

Structural Vibration Control for a Class of Connected Multistructure Mechanical Systems

Table 1

Percentages of reduction in maximum absolute interstory drifts with respect to the uncontrolled response.

ā€‰ Building 1 Building 2 Building 3
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(a) Active-passive 24.7 26.7 37.4 72.4 71.7 71.3 71.1 71.5 43.3 43.7
(b) Passive 17.3 19.3 27.9 40.1 45.5 45.8 47.3 43.2 46.4 44.0
(c) Uncoupled-active 0 0 0 70.1 70.3 71.0 70.3 69.9 0 0