Abstract
AbstractThis paper presents a control analysis of displacement for a building. To control the vertical displacement of the building, control device of multi‐balloons with water inside is introduced on the friction piles. Coupling through the water, soil, balloon and pile, the interaction problem is numerically solved. The soil is assumed to be a linear elastic body. The balloon and pile are also modelled as linear elastic truss and rigid‐frame components. The water is assumed to be the two‐dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flow. All components are discretized by the finite element method in space. The control analysis of vertical displacement by fluid force is performed for the purpose of keeping the building horizontal. One of the optimal control theory, the so‐called Sakawa–Shindo method, is applied for the control analysis. Using this method, control flux of the water is determined so that position at the top of the balloon comes to be close to the objective position. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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