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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sem.2017.62.5.631

Localized evaluation of actuator tracking for real-time hybrid simulation using frequency-domain indices  

Xu, Weijie (Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of the Ministry of Education, Southeast University)
Guo, Tong (Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of the Ministry of Education, Southeast University)
Chen, Cheng (School of Engineering, San Francisco State University)
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Structural Engineering and Mechanics / v.62, no.5, 2017 , pp. 631-642 More about this Journal
Abstract
Accurate actuator tracking plays an important role in real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) to ensure accurate and reliable experimental results. Frequency-domain evaluation index (FEI) interprets actuator tracking into amplitude and phase errors thus providing a promising tool for quantitative assessment of real-time hybrid simulation results. Previous applications of FEI successfully evaluated actuator tracking over the entire duration of the tests. In this study, FEI with moving window technique is explored to provide post-experiment localized actuator tracking assessment. Both moving window with and without overlap are investigated through computational simulations. The challenge is discussed for Fourier Transform to satisfy both time domain and frequency resolution for selected length of moving window. The required data window length for accuracy is shown to depend on the natural frequency and structural nonlinearity as well as the ground motion input for both moving windows with and without overlap. Moving window without overlap shows better computational efficiency and has potential for future online evaluation. Moving window with overlap however requires much more computational efforts and is more suitable for post-experiment evaluation. Existing RTHS data from Network Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is utilized to further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. It is demonstrated that with proper window size, FEI with moving window techniques enable accurate localized evaluation of actuator tracking for real-time hybrid simulation.
Keywords
real-time hybrid simulation; frequency-domain evaluation index; tracking error; moving window;
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