The International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring, The International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring Takuji Kobori Prize
Fundamental equation based on pole allocation for interstory seismic isolation of buildings, Japan, Official journal
IKEDA, Yoshiki
The Prize is awarded to a paper that is judged to be the best among all the papers published in Structural Control and Health Monitoring (SCHM), the official journal of the International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring (IASCM). It is awarded annually to the authors of the best paper published in the SCHM in the preceding year. The awarded paper found a fundamental equation to express the complex dynamic nature of interstory seismically isolated buildings. The equation explains the trade-off relationship between the damping effects of the lower and upper substructures as the constraint in structural design.