• Title/Summary/Keyword: Vibration mitigation

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A Study on Safety and Impact on Subway by Application of Vibration-Proof Mat (방진 매트의 적용에 따른 지하철 영향평가와 안전에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Kyung-Ha;Lee, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2019
  • With the development of public transportation, the use of subways as a means of transportation in the city center is increasing, so that vibrations and structural noises are emerging as a new environmental issues. This study can be used as a basis for research on subway safety and shock mitigation by applying vibration-proof mat.

Performance of a 3D pendulum tuned mass damper in offshore wind turbines under multiple hazards and system variations

  • Sun, Chao;Jahangiri, Vahid;Sun, Hui
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 2019
  • Misaligned wind-wave and seismic loading render offshore wind turbines suffering from excessive bi-directional vibration. However, most of existing research in this field focused on unidirectional vibration mitigation, which is insufficient for research and real application. Based on the authors' previous work (Sun and Jahangiri 2018), the present study uses a three dimensional pendulum tuned mass damper (3d-PTMD) to mitigate the nacelle structural response in the fore-aft and side-side directions under wind, wave and near-fault ground motions. An analytical model of the offshore wind turbine coupled with the 3d-PTMD is established wherein the interaction between the blades and the tower is modelled. Aerodynamic loading is computed using the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) method where the Prandtl's tip loss factor and the Glauert correction are considered. Wave loading is computed using Morison equation in collaboration with the strip theory. Performance of the 3d-PTMD is examined on a National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) monopile 5 MW baseline wind turbine under misaligned wind-wave and near-fault ground motions. The robustness of the mitigation performance of the 3d-PTMD under system variations is studied. Dual linear TMDs are used for comparison. Research results show that the 3d-PTMD responds more rapidly and provides better mitigation of the bi-directional response caused by misaligned wind, wave and near-fault ground motions. Under system variations, the 3d-PTMD is found to be more robust than the dual linear TMDs to overcome the detuning effect. Moreover, the 3d-PTMD with a mass ratio of 2% can mitigate the short-term fatigue damage of the offshore wind turbine tower by up to 90%.

Mitigation of the seismic response of a cable-stayed bridge with soil-structure-interaction effect using tuned mass dampers

  • Kontoni, Denise-Penelope N.;Farghaly, Ahmed Abdelraheem
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.69 no.6
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    • pp.699-712
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    • 2019
  • A cable-stayed bridge (CSB) is one of the most complicated structures, especially when subjected to earthquakes and taking into consideration the effect of soil-structure-interaction (SSI). A CSB of a 500 m mid-span was modeled by the SAP2000 software and was subjected to four different earthquakes. To mitigate the harmful effect of the vibration generated from each earthquake, four mitigation schemes were used and compared with the non-mitigation model to determine the effectiveness of each scheme, when applying on the SSI or fixed CSB models. For earthquake mitigation, tuned mass damper (TMD) systems and spring dampers with different placements were used to help reduce the seismic response of the CBS model. The pylons, the mid-span of the deck and the pylon-deck connections are the best TMDs and spring dampers placements to achieve an effective reduction of the earthquake response on such bridges.

Prediction of the Intensity of Vibration Around the Crossing Part of Manganese Turnout (망간분기기 크로싱부 인근의 진동 발생수준 예측)

  • Eum, Ki-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2008
  • In railroad operation, turnout is the device designed to provide very critical functions of moving the train to the neighboring rail. It's the only movable section among the rail and track equipment, which has a complicated structure and as rapid movement between the wheel and rail during operation is unavoidable, the safety and the vibration caused by the impact load of the passing train becomes always the major concern. Response to rail vibration tends to vary depending on physical properties of the rail, rail base and the ground, making it difficult to estimate the quantitative outcome through the measurement. Thus, experimental or empirical approach, rather than an analytic method, has been more commonly employed to deal with the ground vibration. To predict the vibration of the turnout, an experimental value and the measured values are applied in parallel to the factors with a high degree of uncertainty. This study hence was intended to compare and analyze the vibration values measured at the crossing part of manganese turnout by type of train and turnout and distance, as well as predict the intensity of vibration generated at the crossing part of manganese turnout when tilting train accelerates.

Rotational Viscoelastic Dampers for the Mitigation of Wind Loads on Transmission Tower Transferred from Transmission Lines (송전선에 의해 송전철탑에 전달되는 풍하중 저감을 위한 회전형 점탄성감쇠기)

  • Moon, Byoung-Wook;Min, Kyung-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.4 s.109
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    • pp.420-427
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    • 2006
  • In this study, wind loads transmitted to a transmission tower from transmission lines are mitigated using rotational viscoelastic dampers. First, the wind load characteristics in a transmission tower is investigated considering the effect of the transmission lines through stochastic analysis. The assemblage of the transmission line and insulator are modeled as a double pendulum system connected to the SDOF model of the tower. From the result of the stochastic analysis, the background component of the overturing moment caused by the wind loads acting on the transmission lines are found to have considerable portion in the total overturning moment. Based on this observation result, a strategy Installing rotational viscoelastic damper (VED) between tower arm and transmission line is proposed for the mitigation of the transmission line reactions, which play a role as dynamic loads on a transmission tower. For the purpose of verification, time history analysis is conducted for different wind velocities and VED parameters. The analysis result shows that the rotational VED is effective for the mitigation of the background component rather than the resonance component of the transmission line reactions and achieves the reduction ratio of 50% even for higher wind speed.

Prediction of Vortex-induced Vibration of the Cable-Stayed Bridge with Steel Composite Deck (강합성 단면을 가진 사장교의 와류진동 발생 예측)

  • Cho, Jae-Young;Cho, Young-Rae;Lee, Hak-Eun
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.449-453
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    • 2007
  • After over a century of effort by researchers and engineers, the problem of bluff body flow, in particular vortex shedding frequency, remains almost entirely in the empirical, descriptive realm of knowledge. Computational methods have been systematically applied for vortex-induced vibrations of the cable-stayed bridge with steel composite deck by unsteady wind loadings due to vortex-shedding. The focus of this paper is to predict the vortex-induced vibration of the cable-stayed bridge with steel composite deck based computational fluid dynamics(CFD).

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Vibration Serviceability Evaluation for Pedestrian of Concrete Cable-stayed Bridge by Experimental Method (실험적 방법에 의한 콘크리트 사장교의 보행자 중심 진동사용성 평가)

  • Kang, Sung-Hoo;Choi, Bong-Hyun;Park, Sun-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the vibration serviceability of pedestrian by travelling vehicles on the cable-stayed bridge with concrete tower was studied. Experiment variables were considered travelling speed of vehicles, pavement state of asphalt on the deck and weight of vehicles, preferentially. Especially, pavement grade states were considered by A and C grades by BMS (Bridge Management System) standard. The incremental ratio extent of vibration acceleration responses, asphalt pavement grade C over A, was construed to 1.23~1.43. Only, these results are valid within extent of the Scaled-Weight 228.0~1161.9 km/h kN. The vibration equations for acceleration responses prediction of bridge deck were proposed into three types, reliability 50%, 90%, 95% respectively. These equations can consider asphalt pavement grade, and the vehicle's weight and travelling velocity, which are the source of vibration, are combined into the term called, 'Scaled Weight'.