Prof. Erik A. JohnsonUniversity of Southern California.pptVIP

Prof. Erik A. JohnsonUniversity of Southern California Education: B.S. (1988), M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1997), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA;Ph.D. co-advisors: L.A. Bergman and P.G. Voulgaris Academic Positions: - Asst. Prof. of Civil Engrg., Univ. of Southern California, 1999-present - Guest Lecturer, Lund University, May 2001 - Visiting Rsrch. Asst. Prof., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1997-1999 Interests: structural dynamics and control, structural health monitoring, random processes, computational stochastic dynamics, probability and statistics, multiobjective optimal control, system identification, structural optimization. The conventional approach is to add passive oil dampers transverse to the cable. However, the damping added with such an approach is limited when the damper is close to the cable-deck anchorage (damping ratio is about xd?/?2L where xd is the?distance between the damper and the anchorage, and L is the cable length). For long-span cable-stayed bridges, achieving even 1% damping may be infeasible without significant changes to bridge aesthetics. Using a smart damper, a controllable passive device such as a variable-orifice damper or magnetorheological fluid damper, significant additional damping may?be added. First, a control-oriented model, a low-order model that captures?the salient dynamics of the cable, is developed using a static deflection A “smart” base isolation system uses low-damping rubber bearings in conjunction with a “smart” (controllable passive) damper instead of the lead-rubber bearing (LRB) used today. To date, many studies of semiactive devices use a clipped-optimal approach, with a primary controller designed as if the device were fully Numerous researchers have studied and proposed SHM techniques. However, SHM methods using ambient vibration often suffer from low signal-to-noise ratios. Yet, using actuators to excite a structure is generally not al