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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 460731, 18 pages doi:10.1155/2011/460731 Research Article Inelastic Structural Control Based on MBC and FAM Li Gang, Liu Qifeng, and Li Hongnan School of Civil Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China Correspondence should be addressed to Li Gang, gli@ Received 20 December 2010; Revised 28 February 2011; Accepted 1 May 2011 Academic Editor: Michael J. Brennan Copyright q 2011 Li Gang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A complex structure has the characters of many degrees of freedom and intricate shape, especially inelastic behavior under strong external loadings. It is hard to apply the structural control technology to it. In this paper, a new method that combines the Market-Based Control MBC strategy and Force Analogy Method FAM is presented to analyze the inelastic behavior of structure with magnetorheological dampers. The MBC is used to reduce the structural vibration response, and FAM is proposed to perform the inelastic analysis. A numerical example is used to compare the control effect of the new method and LQR algorithm, which show the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed computational method. 1. Introduction The structural vibration control began in the mechanical engineering in the early twenteith century, subsequently developed in the aerospace engineering. The conception of structural control in civil engineering was proposed by Yao in 1972 1. In the past 30 years, the structural control technology has made considerabl