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SUMMARY:Disturbance Amplification in Mass Chains: how to prevent buildings
  from falling over - Kaoru Yamamoto
DTSTART:20150303T203000Z
DTEND:20150303T210000Z
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CONTACT:Paulina Rowicka
DESCRIPTION:For seismic design\, the installation of vibration control dev
 ices between floors is widely accepted. As the vibration suppression perfo
 rmance of the entire building highly depends on these devices\, it is impo
 rtant to understand how they affect the dynamics of the building. \n\nIn t
 his talk\, a vibration control problem of a chain of masses with base exci
 tation will be introduced in a context of seismic design. The main objecti
 ve is to limit the intermass displacement (inter-storey displacement in a 
 building) and the frequency domain analysis is used to approach this probl
 em. It will be shown that the maximum value of the frequency responses fro
 m a ground displacement to the inter-storey displacements remain bounded a
 s the building gets taller.
LOCATION:Bateman Room\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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