Journal
STRUCTURAL CONTROL & HEALTH MONITORING
Volume 25, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/stc.2257
Keywords
bow tie friction; control; curved surface slider; friction isolation pendulum; semiactive; zero dymamic stiffness
Funding
- Maurer Switzerland GmbH
- MAURER ENGINEERING GmbH
- MAURER SE
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This paper investigates the isolation performance of curved surface sliders (CSSs) with different damping mechanisms. The following passive damping mechanisms are considered: passive friction damping as commonly present in CSSs, linear viscous damping as linear damping mechanism, and bow tie friction as adaptive, that is, position-dependent, but passive approach; CSSs with adaptive behaviour based on different sliding regimes are not considered. From the field of CSSs with semiactive dampers, two control strategies are considered: amplitude proportional friction damping aiming at linearizing the friction damping over one cycle and semiactively controlled damping and stiffness properties to enhance the decoupling between ground and structure by the emulation of zero dynamic stiffness. The CSSs under consideration are assessed in terms of peak structural acceleration, peak CSS horizontal force and displacement, and recentring error as function of peak ground acceleration (PGA) of the accelerograms. The results demonstrate that (a) friction damping can be optimized at one PGA only due to its nonlinearity, (b) the optimization of linear viscous damping does not depend on PGA, (c) optimized bow tie friction improves the isolation at low PGA while the isolation at medium to high PGAs worsens, (d) optimized amplitude proportional friction damping does not improve the isolation compared with optimized linear viscous damping, and (e) zero dynamic stiffness is preferably emulated only for a certain range of CSS relative motion amplitude to keep the recentring error within acceptable limits.
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