• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.435-451
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• 2013

High-rise buildings are a common feature of urban cities around the world. These flexible structures frequently exhibit large vibration due to strong winds and earthquakes. Structural control has been employed as an effective means to mitigate excessive responses; however, structural control mechanisms that can be used in tall buildings are limited primarily to mass and liquid dampers. An attractive alternative can be found in outrigger damping systems, where the bending deformation of the building is transformed into shear deformation across dampers placed between the outrigger and the perimeter columns. The outrigger system provides additional damping that can reduce structural responses, such as the floor displacements and accelerations. This paper investigates the potential of using smart dampers, specifically magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers, in the outrigger system. First, a high-rise building is modeled to portray the St. Francis Shangri-La Place in Philippines. The optimal performance of the outrigger damping system for mitigation of seismic responses in terms of damper size and location also is subsequently evaluated. The efficacy of the semi-active damped outrigger system is finally verified through numerical simulation.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2019

This paper proposes a quantitative criterion for optimization of actuator placement for the Prestress-Accumulation Release (PAR) strategy of mitigation of vibrations. The PAR strategy is a recently developed semi-active control approach that relies on controlled redistribution of vibration energy into high-order modes, which are high-frequency and thus effectively dissipated by means of the natural mechanisms of material damping. The energy transfer is achieved by a controlled temporary removal of selected structural constraints. This paper considers a short-time decoupling of rotational degrees of freedom in a frame node so that the bending moments temporarily cease to be transferred between the involved beams. We propose and test a quantitative criterion for placement of such actuators. The criterion is based on local modal strain energy that can be released into high-order modes. The numerical time complexity is linear with respect to the number of actuators and potential placements, which facilitates quick analysis in case of large structures.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.523-541
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• 2015

Structural health monitoring of steel truss bridge based on changes in modal properties was investigated in this study. Vibration measurements with five sensors were conducted at an existing Warren truss bridge with partial fractures in diagonal members before and after an emergency repair work. Modal properties identified by the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm showed evidences of increases in modal damping due to the damage in diagonal member. In order to understand the dynamic behavior of the bridge and possible mechanism of those increases in modal damping, theoretical modal analysis was conducted with three dimensional frame models. It was found that vibrations of the main truss could be coupled internally with local vibrations of diagonal members and the degree of coupling could change with structural changes in diagonal members. Additional vibration measurements with fifteen sensors were then conducted so as to understand the consistency of those theoretical findings with the actual dynamic behavior. Modal properties experimentally identified showed that the damping change caused by the damage in diagonal member described above could have occurred in a diagonal-coupled mode. The results in this study imply that damages in diagonal members could be detected from changes in modal damping of diagonal-coupled modes.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2013

Magnetorheological (MR) fluid belongs to the group of smart materials. In MR fluid, iron particles in base oil form chains in the direction of the applied magnetic field, thus resulting in a variation in the stiffness and damping characteristics of the fluid. Research is being carried out on controlling the stiffness and damping characteristics as well as the tribological characteristics of the MR fluid. In this study, the friction characteristics of MR fluid have been evaluated using three types of materials and magnetic fields of different strengths. The coefficients of friction of the three types of MR fluid are measured, and the relationship between the coefficient of friction and the strength of the applied magnetic field is obtained.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제71권3호
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• pp.257-269
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• 2019

This paper develops a nonlocal strain gradient plate model for damping vibration analysis of smart magneto-electro-viscoelastic nanoplates resting on visco-Pasternak medium. For more accurate analysis of nanoplate, the proposed theory contains two scale parameters related to the nonlocal and strain gradient effects. Viscoelastic effect which is neglected in all previous papers on magneto-electro-viscoelastic nanoplates is considered based on Kelvin-Voigt model. Governing equations of a nonlocal strain gradient smart nanoplate on viscoelastic substrate are derived via Hamilton's principle. Galerkin's method is implemented to solve the governing equations. Effects of different factors such as viscoelasticity, nonlocal parameter, length scale parameter, applied voltage and magnetic potential on damping vibration characteristics of a nanoplate are studied.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2013

초고층 건물의 구조설계시 풍하중에 의한 횡방향 변위를 적절한 값 이내로 줄이는 것이 가장 중요한 문제 중에 하나이다. 이를 위해서 추가적인 감쇠기 및 진동제어장치를 사용하는 방법이 일반적으로 고려되고 있다. 이 때 일반적으로 구조물의 특성은 변화없이 추가되는 제어장치에 대해서만 최적설계를 수행하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 구조물과 스마트 제어장치의 다목적 통합 최적화를 통하여 추가되는 스마트 제어장치로 인하여 구조물의 물량을 줄일 수 있는 가능성을 검토하였다. 이를 위하여 다이어그리드 구조시스템이 적용된 60층 초고층 건물을 예제 구조물로 선택하였고, 인공 풍하중에 대한 풍응답을 검토하였다. 스마트 제어장치로는 TMD에 MR 감쇠기를 설치한 스마트 TMD를 사용하였다. 구조물의 응답과 구조물량 및 제어장치의 용량을 동시에 줄이는 것이 필요하므로 본 연구에서는 다목적 유전자알고리즘을 적용하였다. 수치해석결과 제어성능목표를 만족시키면서 구조물의 물량과 제어장치의 용량을 적절하게 줄일 수 있는 다양한 설계 최적안을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

구조물의 지진응답을 저감시키기 위하여 추가적인 감쇠기나 진동제어장치가 일반적으로 사용된다. 이때, 추가적인 감쇠장치의 제어성능은 대상구조물 특성의 변화 없이 검토된다. 본 연구에서는 구조물과 스마트 제어장치의 다목적 통합최적화를 수행하였고 스마트 최상층 면진시스템이 설치된 구조물의 구조물량 저감의 가능성을 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 20층 예제구조물이 사용되었으며 MR 감쇠기와 저감쇠 탄성베어링을 사용하여 스마트 면진시스템을 구성하였다. 중약진지역의 설계스펙트럼을 바탕으로 생성된 인공지진하중을 사용하여 구조해석을 수행하였다. 수치해석결과, 스마트 최상층 면진시스템이 중약진지역에 있는 구조물의 응답과 면진층 변위를 동시에 효과적으로 줄일 수 있는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 제안된 통합최적설계기법으로 구조물량 및 감쇠기 용량을 적절하게 줄이면서도 우수한 제어성능을 발휘하는 다양한 설계 대안을 제공할 수 있었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.229-251
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• 2020

In this paper, dynamic buckling of a smart sandwich nanotube is studied. The nanostructure is composed of a carbon-nanotube with inner and outer surfaces coated with ZnO piezoelectric layers, which play the role of sensor and actuator. Nanotube is under magnetic field and ZnO layers are under electric field. The nanostructure is located in a viscoelastic environment, which is assumed to obey Visco-Pasternak model. Non-local piezo-elasticity theory is used to consider the small-scale effect, and Kelvin model is used to describe the structural damping effects. Surface stresses are taken into account based on Gurtin-Murdoch theory. Hamilton principle in conjunction with zigzag shear-deformation theory is used to obtain the governing equations. The governing equations are then solved using the differential quadrature method, to determine dynamic stability region of the nanostructure. To validate the analysis, the results for simpler case studies are compared with others reported in the literature. Then, the effect of various parameters such as small-scale, surface stresses, Visco-Pasternak environment and electric and magnetic fields on the dynamic stability region is investigated. The results show that considering the surface stresses leads to an increase in the excitation frequency and the dynamic stability region happens at higher frequencies.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.127-137
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• 2017

Identification of damping characteristics is of significant importance for dynamic response analysis and condition assessment of structural systems. Damping is associated with the behavior of the energy dissipation mechanism. Identification of damping ratios based on the sensitivity of dynamic responses and the model updating technique is investigated with numerical and experimental investigations. The effectiveness and performance of using the sensitivity-based model updating method and vibration monitoring data for damping ratios identification are investigated. Numerical studies on a three-dimensional truss bridge model are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Measurement noise effect and the initial finite element modelling errors are considered. The results demonstrate that the damping ratio identification with the proposed approach is not sensitive to the noise effect but could be affected significantly by the modelling errors. Experimental studies on a steel planar frame structure are conducted. The robustness and performance of the proposed damping identification approach are investigated with real measured vibration data. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach has a decent and reliable performance to identify the damping ratios.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.461-472
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• 2017

Explicit design formulae of liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) for suppressing harmonic vibration of structures with small inherent structural damping are developed in this study. The developed design formulae are also applicable to the design of a tuned mass damper (TMD) and a tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) for damped structures under harmonic force excitation. The optimum parameters of LCVA for suppressing harmonic vibration of undamped structures are first derived. Numerical searching of the optimum parameters of tuned vibration absorber system for suppressing harmonic vibration of damped structure is conducted. Explicit formulae for these optimum parameters are then obtained by a series of curve fitting techniques. The analytical result shows that the control performance of TLCD for reducing harmonic vibration of undamped structure is always better than that of non-uniform LCVA for same mass and length ratios. As for the effects of structural damping on the optimum parameters, it is found that the optimum tuning ratio decreases and the optimum damping ratio increases as the structural damping is increased. Furthermore, the optimum head loss coefficient is inversely proportional to the amplitude of excitation force and increases as the structural damping is increased. Numerical verification of the developed explicit design expressions is also conducted and the developed expressions are demonstrated to be reasonably accurate for design purposes.