• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.287-303
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• 2018

Applications of energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations is becoming popular but the full potential of such applications is yet to be explored. This paper addresses this issue by considering an application of energy harvesting for the dual objective of serving as an indicator of structural health monitoring (SHM) and extent of control. Variation of harvested energy from an undamaged baseline is employed for this purpose and the concept is illustrated by implementing it for active vibrations of a pipe structure. Theoretical and experimental analyses are carried out to determine the energy harvesting potential from undamaged and damaged conditions. The use of energy harvesting as indicator for control is subsequently investigated, considering the effect of the introduction of a tuned mass damper (TMD). It is found that energy harvesting can be used for the detection and monitoring of the location and magnitude of damage occurring within a pipe structure. Additionally, the harvested energy acts as an indicator of the extent of reduction of vibration of pipes when a TMD is attached. This paper extends the range of applications of energy harvesting devices for the monitoring of built infrastructure and illustrates the vast potential of energy harvesters as smart sensors.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권3호
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• pp.305-317
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• 2021

An AMD control system is usually built based on the original model of a target building. As a result, the fact leads a large calculation workload exists. Therefore, the orders of a structural model should be reduced appropriately. Among various model-reduction methods, a suitable reduced-order model is important to high-rise buildings. Meanwhile, a partial structural information is discarded directly in the model-reduction process, which leads to the accuracy reduction of its controller design. In this paper, an optimal technique is selected through comparing several common model-reduction methods. Then, considering the dynamic characteristics of a high-rise building, an improved balanced truncation (BT) method is proposed for establishing its reduced-order model. The abandoned structural information, including natural frequencies, damping ratios and modal information of the original model, is reconsidered. Based on the improved reduced-order model, a new reduced-order controller is designed by a regional pole-placement method. A high-rise building with an AMD system is regarded as an example, in which the energy distribution, the control effects and the control parameters are used as the indexes to analyze the performance of the improved reduced-order controller. To verify its effectiveness, the proposed methodology is also applied to a four-storey experimental frame. The results demonstrate that the new controller has a stable control performance and a relatively short calculation time, which provides good potential for structural vibration control of high-rise buildings.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 건축물의 실시간 피드백 진동제어를 위한 기초연구로써, 자체 기술력을 바탕으로 개발된 무선 가속도센서 시스템 및 프로토타입 (Prototype) AMD 시스템을 결합하여 피드백 진동제어 시스템을 구성하고, 모형 건축물을 대상으로 구성된 제어시스템의 기초성능을 평가하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 본 논문에서는 우선 MEMS 센서 소자 및 블루투스 통신 모듈 기반의 무선 가속도 센서 유닛, 실시간 가속도 응답획득 및 제어법칙에 근거한 제어출력을 구현하도록 구성한 운영프로그램 등을 개발하였다. 또한 AC 서보모터를 이용해 기동되도록 설계한 프로토타입 AMD 및 모터 드라이버 시스템을 구성하였다. 마지막으로 이를 이용해 실시간 피드백 진동제어 시스템을 구성하였고, 2층 모형 건축물을 대상으로 실험실 규모의 진동제어 실험을 수행하여 목적된 구조물의 진동저감 효과를 정량적으로 분석하였다. 실험의 결과, 모형 구조물의 1차 및 2차 공진주파수 그리고 랜덤주파수 등의 실험조건에서 명확한 진동저감의 효과를 확인할 수 있었으며, 종국적으로 본 논문에서 개발한 무선 가속도센서 시스템 및 AMD 시스템이 향후 여타 구조물의 진동제어를 위한 효과적인 수단으로 응용될 수 있는 가능성을 확인하였다.