10.15131/shef.data.4206450.v1 Alvaro Magdaleno Alvaro Magdaleno Emiliano Pereira Emiliano Pereira Javier Castano Javier Castano Norberto Iban Norberto Iban Ivan M. Dıaz Ivan M. Dıaz Antolın Lorenzana Antolın Lorenzana EACS 2016 paper - OPTIMAL DESIGN AND PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF EDDY-CURRENT TUNED MASS DAMPERS WITH PERMANENT MAGNETS FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS The University of Sheffield 2017 EACS2016 Structural control Passive vibration control Tuned mass damper Optimization Mechanical Engineering 2017-03-28 15:17:05 Journal contribution https://orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/EACS_2016_paper_-_OPTIMAL_DESIGN_AND_PRACTICAL_IMPLEMENTATION_OF_EDDY-CURRENT_TUNED_MASS_DAMPERS_WITH_PERMANENT_MAGNETS_FOR_MULTI-STOREY_BUILDINGS/4206450 <div>EACS 2016 Paper No. 174 (113)</div><div><br></div>This work proposes an implementation example of two tuned mass dampers (TDM) on a reduced scale two storey building. The TMD, in which the damping is magnetically adjusted without contact, is a laboratory prototype built in CARTIF (Spain). This TMD consists on a one degree of freedom system formed by a permanent magnet (mass) fixed to a flexible link (elasticity) and an aluminum plate at an adjustable distance to the magnet (damping). The tuning of the TMDs is carried out by considering the passive system as a feedback controller. The system identification and the experimental results show the validity of theoretical approximations and the design criterions.