Recent advances in vibration control of offshore platforms

BL Zhang, QL Han, XM Zhang - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2017 - Springer
Offshore platforms are widely used to explore, drill, produce, storage, and transport ocean
resources and are usually subject to environmental loading, such as waves, winds, ice, and …

Sliding mode control with mixed current and delayed states for offshore steel jacket platforms

BL Zhang, QL Han, XM Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with active control for an offshore steel jacket platform subjected to
wave-induced force and parameter perturbations. An uncertain dynamic model for the …

Sliding mode H∞ control for offshore steel jacket platforms subject to nonlinear self-excited wave force and external disturbance

BL Zhang, L Ma, QL Han - Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with sliding mode H∞ control for an offshore steel jacket platform
subject to nonlinear self-excited wave force and external disturbance. A sliding mode H∞ …

Optimization of tuned mass dampers for multiple mode vortex-induced vibration mitigation in flexible structures: An application to multi-span continuous bridge

S Xu, G Fang, M Zhang, O Øiseth, L Zhao… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) have proven effective in suppressing structural vibration. In
existing research on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) control of flexible structures, only one …

Effects of small time-delays on dynamic output feedback control of offshore steel jacket structures

XM Zhang, QL Han, D Han - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effect of a small time-delay on dynamic output feedback control
of an offshore steel jacket structure subject to a nonlinear wave-induced force. First, a …

Active vibration H∞ control of offshore steel jacket platforms using delayed feedback

BL Zhang, GY Tang - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with delayed H∞ control for an offshore steel jacket platforms
subject to external wave force. By artificially introducing a proper time-delay into control …

Integral sliding mode control for offshore steel jacket platforms

BL Zhang, QL Han, XM Zhang, X Yu - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with robust integral sliding mode control for an offshore steel jacket
platforms subject to nonlinear wave-induced force and parameter perturbations. A robust …

Robust tracking control of nonlinear unmatched uncertain systems via event-based adaptive dynamic programming

R Dahal, I Kar - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, a novel robust tracking control strategy for nonlinear unmatched uncertain
systems is formulated using the event-based adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) …

Network-based modelling and active control for offshore steel jacket platform with TMD mechanisms

BL Zhang, QL Han - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2014 - Elsevier
The network-based modelling and active control for an offshore steel jacket platform with an
active tuned mass damper mechanism is investigated. A network-based dynamic model of …

Effect of shape memory alloy-magnetorheological fluid-based structural control system on the marine structure using nonlinear time-history analysis

S Zareie, MS Alam, RJ Seethaler, A Zabihollah - Applied Ocean Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Marine structures, as key elements in the global energy network, constantly are subjected to
harsh environmental loading conditions. Therefore, reliable yet efficient structural control …