Development of a hybrid vibration experiment system for determining wind-induced responses of buildings with tuned dampers

The aim of this study was to develop a hybrid vibration experiment system that can evaluate the performance of complicated vibration dampers, e.g. sloshing dampers, which show high nonlinearity. To this end, a system consisting of a computer and an actuator was developed, and applied to an experiment on a building with a tuned mass damper under wind load. The system's accuracy and effectiveness was thus confirmed.