In analysis, it is common practice to conceptualize structures, objects, and isolation systems as basic mass-spring-damper models, as depicted in Figure 42.1. All objects experience vibration when ...

When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, people inside the island’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, were protected by a large yellow pendulum at the building’s center that helped ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) said on the 2nd that it has developed a “stiffness-adjustable tuned mass damper (TMD) technology” that can be easily installed ...