Smart
Base Isolated Building Benchmark Problem
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil
Professor, Depts. of Civil & Env.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civ. and
Env.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civ. and
Env.
ABSTRACT
The benchmark
problem is for passive, active and semiactive control of seismically excited
base-isolated buildings. The objective of this benchmark study is to provide a
well defined base isolated building with a broad set of carefully chosen
parameter sets, performance measures and guidelines to the participants, so
that they can evaluate their control algorithms. The control algorithms may be
passive, active or semi-active. The benchmark structure considered is an eight
story base isolated building similar to existing buildings in
Phase I: Linear Isolation Systems (Completed and Special
Issue Published) 
Call for papers:
Special issue of the Journal of Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Smart
Base Isolated Benchmark Building Part I: Problem Definition, Sriram
Narasimhan, Satish Nagarajaiah, Erik A. Johnson, and Henri P. Gavin
Phase II: Nonlinear Isolation
Systems 
Call
for papers: Special issue of the Journal of Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Smart
Base Isolated Benchmark Building Part IV: Sample Controller for Nonlinear Isolation
System
Satish
Nagarajaiah and Sriram Narasimhan (In preparation)
MATLAB,
SIMULINK, and Data Files
Please contact
Professor
Depts. of Civil & Env.Eng. and Mech.Eng.& Mat.Sc.
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