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Eccentricities break the regularity and make it difficult to resist horizontal loads. However, relatively stable and robust performance can still be achieved through properly aligned eccentricity. This paper used the controllability-related concepts, the controllability Grammians and Hankel singular values (HSVs), to study the impact of eccentricities on the seismic performance of curved bridges. An analytical model was expressed by second order differential equations with rigid deck assumption. Six eccentricity cases: three different radii (resulting in different center of mass (CM)), three different bearing arrangements (resulting in different center of stiffness (CS)), and variable earthquake directions (resulting in different moment arms) were strategized for research. Analyses showed that effects of eccentricities (offsets of CS from CM) can be extensively interpreted by controllability indices. Proper eccentricity may \u201creach\u201d and thus \u201ccontrol\u201d the responses better and decrease the coupling effects, counteract the unfavorable excitation effects, and make the bridge less sensitive to excitation changes. In this sense, regularity or stability could be somewhat re-established through design. 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