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Robust passive damper design for building structures under uncertain structural parameter environments

  • Fujita, Kohei (Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Kyoto University) ;
  • Takewaki, Izuru (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University)
  • Received : 2011.11.03
  • Accepted : 2012.05.04
  • Published : 2012.12.25
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Abstract

An enhanced and efficient methodology is proposed for evaluating the robustness of an uncertain structure with passive dampers. Although the structural performance for seismic loads is an important design criterion in earthquake-prone countries, the structural parameters such as storey stiffnesses and damping coefficients of passive dampers are uncertain due to various factors or sources, e.g. initial manufacturing errors, material deterioration, temperature dependence. The concept of robust building design under such uncertain structural-parameter environment may be one of the most challenging issues to be tackled recently. By applying the proposed method of interval analysis and robustness evaluation for predicting the response variability accurately, the robustness of a passively controlled structure can be evaluated efficiently in terms of the so-called robustness function. An application is presented of the robustness function to the design and evaluation of passive damper systems.

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