Towards realistic minimum-cost optimization of viscous fluid dampers for seismic retrofitting - Pollini, Nicolò; Lavan, Oren; Amir, Oded (Bulletin of earthquake engineering, 2016)
Keywords: Civil Engineering; Cost function; Design engineering; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earthquake dampers; Energy dissipation; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology; Interpolation; Mathematical models; Nonlinear programming; Optimization; Original Research Paper; Retrofitting; Seismic engineering; Seismology; Structural Geology; Topology; Viscous fluids; Topology optimization; Energy dissipation devices; Viscous dampers; Material interpolation functions; Irregular structures; Seismic retrofitting