CAREER: Passive and Active Damping Control for Large Civil Structures

这一综合教育和研究计划的目标是通过被动和主动手段增加大型土木结构应用中的阻尼，以减少结构响应。拟议的研究计划将开发、分析和实验证明使用智能材料和结构技术的民用结构的被动、半主动和主动结构阻尼控制。该研究建立在马里兰正在进行的使用电流变（ER）和磁流变（MR）阻尼器的稳定性增强、冲击和振动控制的研究基础上。阻尼策略将在目前正在开发的动态缩放三层土木结构建筑模型上进行测试。

The objective of this integrated education and research plan is to augment damping in large civil structures applications, via both passive and active means, to reduce structural response. The proposed research program will develop, analyze and experimentally demonstrate passive, semi-active, and active structural damping control for civil structures using smart materials and structures technology. The research builds on the ongoing research efforts at Maryland on stability augmentation, shock, and vibration control using electrorheological (ER) and magnetorheological (MR) dampers. Damping strategies will be tested on dynamically scaled three story civil structures building model currently under development.