Apparent-weakening by adaptive passive stiffness shaping along the height of multistory building using negative stiffness devices and dampers for seismic protection
| Autor: | Debarshi Sen, Satish Nagarajaiah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Ground motion
business.industry Computer science Negative stiffness 0211 other engineering and technologies Stiffness 020101 civil engineering 02 engineering and technology Structural engineering 0201 civil engineering Damper Passive control Nonlinear system 021105 building & construction medicine Seismic protection medicine.symptom Passive stiffness business Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Engineering Structures. 220:110754 |
| ISSN: | 0141-0296 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.110754 |
| Popis: | Apparent weakening by adaptive stiffness shaping of structures using a negative stiffness device (NSD) is a new passive structural control approach to mitigate the response of structures during severe ground motions. Experimental studies confirm significant reductions in acceleration, inter-story drift and base shear experienced by a structure when a NSD is deployed in conjunction with a viscous damper. So far, the focus and application of NSDs has been restricted to response reduction in the story where a NSD is installed and its effect on stories above that. In this paper, we demonstrate the efficacy of deploying NSDs accompanied by dampers at multiple locations along the height of an example nine story structure. Typically, the NSDs in the lower floors undergo large deformations since the energy from a ground motion is transmitted from the bottom to top. To prevent this, we propose a generalized scheme to incorporate NSDs at all floors with different apparent-yield displacements. We incorporate the variations with a view towards minimizing localized inter-story deformations (ISD) and distribute the effects of strong ground motions evenly along the height of the structure. In addition to the variation of apparent-yield of NSDs, we study the effects of supplementing the NSD with linear and non-linear dampers. We compare the response of the nine story structure without passive control devices (BS) to cases where linear dampers (LD) are attached, nonlinear dampers are attached (ND), NSDs in conjuction with linear dampers are attached (NSD + LD) and NSDs in conjunction with nonlinear dampers are attached (NSD + ND). Our results show that if the distribution of apparent yield is properly designed for a structure, NSDs with nonlinear dampers results in a superior performance compared to the other cases considered in this paper. |
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