1. Edition - June 2005
112.- Euro
2005. 294 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-01352-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-01352-6 - John Wiley & Sons






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This comprehensive handbook is designed to provide you with the knowledge needed to successfully implement an active, hybrid or semi-active control system to a structure for safeguarding it against environmental forces such as wind or earthquakes.

Important issues involved in the integrated implementation of active control systems are addressed along with key features:
* With fantastic breadth of information, Soong covers practical control techniques and validation of implementation through simulations.
* Great emphasis on fail-safe techniques and validation of the implementation through simulations is the technical strength of the work.

A must have reference on the desktop of any researchers, practitioners and design engineers working in civil, aerospace, automotive and mechanical engineering. Undoubtably the key resource for all postgraduate students in the field leanding to the superbly organised collection of information from the control engineering area.

From the contents
Preface.

1 Introduction.

1.1 General.

1.2 Basic Principles.

1.3 State-of-the-Practice.

1.4 Implementation-related Issues.

1.5 Organization.

2 Hardware Description.

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Active Control Force Generation System.

2.3 Measuring Equipment.

2.4 Signal Interface System.

2.5 Digital Control System.

2.6 Case Study.

3 Control Software Implementation.

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Practical Considerations.

3.3 Digital Control System (Software).

3.4 Appropriate Design Morphology.

3.5 Case Study.

4 Theoretical and Practical Control Techniques.

4.1 General.

4.2 Continuous-Time Optimal Direct Output Feedback.

4.3 Effect of Time Delay.

4.4 Discrete-Time Control Analysis and Design.

4.5 Analytical Simulations of Discrete-Time Control.

4.6 Case Study.

5 Control Performance Verification.

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Real-Time Structural Simulator.

5.3 Real-Time Control Verification of Hybrid/Active Mass Damper Model 314.

5.4 Case Study.

6 Summary.

6.1 Directions of Future Development.

References.