Environmental Engineering Reference
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Fig. 13.15 The logic behind
the 2VAR controller
(numbers refer to
Eqs.
13.41
-
13.44
)
(2)
(4)
(3)
OFF
OFF
ON
σ
lim
(
1
)
O
N
x
lim
top displacement
Fig. 13.16 Equivalent base
accelerations corresponding
to the two wind load cases:
a Extreme operating gust
(EOG), b Parking (PRK)
domain [
20
]. These accelerograms have been reproduced through the shaking table
facility to perform all the dynamic tests discussed in the following.
The mock-up structure has been tested first in a fixed base (FB) condition. The
FB configuration has been realized using the same setup of Fig.
13.4
, simply
