• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2012

The importance of appropriate use of damping evaluation techniques and points to note for accurate evaluation of damping are first discussed. Then, the variation of damping ratio with amplitude is discussed, especially in the amplitude range relevant to wind-resistant design of buildings, i.e. within the elastic limit. The general belief is that damping increases with amplitude, but it is emphasized that there is no evidence of increasing damping ratio in the very high amplitude range within the elastic limit of main frames, unless there is damage to secondary members or architectural finishings. The damping ratio rather decreases with amplitude from a certain tip drift ratio defined as "critical tip drift ratio," after all friction surfaces between primary/structural and secondary/non-structural members have been mobilized.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.229-242
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• 2021

Dynamic characteristics of tall building structures with double negative stiffness damped outriggers (2NSDO) are parametrically studied using the theoretical formula. Compared with one negative stiffness damped outrigger (1NSDO), 2NSDO can achieve a similar maximal modal damping ratio with a smaller negative stiffness ratio. Besides, the 2NSDO can improve the maximum achievable damping ratio to about 30% with less consumption of an outrigger damping coefficient compared with the double conventional damped outriggers (2CDO). Besides, the responses of structures with 2NSDO under fluctuating wind load are investigated by time-history analysis. Numerical results show that the 2NSDO is effective in reducing structural acceleration under fluctuating wind load, being more efficient than 1NSDO.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.349-365
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• 2013

Structures consisting of concrete and steel parts, which are irregular in damping ratios are investigated. This investigation is a code-based seismic design of such structures. Several practical difficulties encountered, due to inherent differences in the nature of dynamic response of each part, and the different damping ratios of the two parts. These structures are irregular in damping ratios and have complex modes of vibration so that their analysis cannot be handled with the readily available commercial software. Therefore, this work aims to provide simple yet sufficiently accurate constant values of equivalent damping ratios applied to the whole structure for handling the damping irregularity of such structures. The results show that the equivalent damping ratio changes with the height of the building and the kind of the structural system, but it is constant for all accelerations values. Thus, available software SAP2000 applied for seismic analysis, design and the provisions of existing seismic codes. Finally, evaluation of different kinds of structural system used in this research to find the most energy dissipating one found by finding the best value of quality coefficient.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.459-466
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to propose a new method for evaluating equivalent damping ratios of a structure with supplemental damping devices to assess their control effect quantitatively. A MDOF system is transformed to an equivalent SDOF system based on the assumption that the first mode dominates structural response. Approximate closed-form formulas for the evaluation of the first damping ratio are presented for various damping devices. Through numerical analysis of a ten-story building equipped with damping devices, the effectiveness of equivalent SDOF model and closed form formulas are verified.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.803-824
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• 2014

The dynamic characterization is important in making accurate predictions of the seismic response of the hybrid structures dominated by different damping mechanisms. Different damping characteristics arise from the construction of the tower with different materials: steel for the upper part; reinforced concrete for the lower main part and interaction with supporting soil. The process of modeling damping matrices and experimental verification is challenging because damping cannot be determined via static tests as can mass and stiffness. The assumption of classical damping is not appropriate if the system to be analyzed consists of two or more parts with significantly different levels of damping, such as steel/concrete mixed structure - supporting soil coupled system. The dynamic response of structures is critically determined by the damping mechanisms, and its value is very important for the design and analysis of vibrating structures. An analytical approach capable of evaluating the equivalent modal damping ratio from structural components is desirable for improving seismic design. Two approaches are considered to define and investigate dynamic characteristics of hybrid tower of cable-stayed bridges: The first approach makes use of a simplified approximation of two lumped masses to investigate the structure irregularity effects including damping of different material, mass ratio, frequency ratio on dynamic characteristics and modal damping; the second approach employs a detailed numerical step-by step integration procedure in which the damping matrices of the upper and the lower substructures are modeled with the Rayleigh damping formulation.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 2023

이 논문의 목적은 콘크리트 댐의 내진성능평가 시 현행 설계기준과 평가요령에서 제시하는 감쇠비 값 크기에 대한 적용방안의 적정성을 검토하고 개선안을 제시하는 것이다. 연구결과 동적탄성해석 시 감쇠비의 크기는 지진하중의 크기가 유사하고 감쇠비에 대한 재현성이 검증된 유사댐의 사례를 참조할 필요가 있으며, 동적소성해석 시에는 지진하중의 크기와 상관없이 초기 탄성거동을 고려하여 감쇠비를 낮은값으로 적용하고 비선형 거동 시 이력감쇠가 추가되도록 고려할 필요가 있다. 또한 암반상에 위치한 콘크리트 댐체는 방사감쇠 효과가 미미하므로 방사감쇠를 반영하기 위해 콘크리트 댐체의 감쇠비를 증가시키는 것은 합리적이지 않다. 따라서 콘크리트 댐의 현실적인 내진성능평가를 위해 현행 댐 설계기준과 평가요령에 수록된 감쇠비 관련내용에 대해 개정이 필요하다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.819-828
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• 2004

A new process for estimating the natural frequency and the corresponding damping ratio in large structures is discussed. In a practical situation, it is very difficult to analyze large structures precisely because they are too complex to model using the finite element method and too heavy to excite using the exciting force method; in particular, the measured signals are seriously influenced by ambient noise. In order to identify the structural impulse response associated with the information of natural frequency and the corresponding damping ratio in large structures, the analysis process, a so-called "multiresolution blind system identification algorithm" which combines Mallat algorithm and the bicepstrum method. High time-frequency concentration is attained and the phase information is kept. The experimental result has demonstrated that the new analysis process exploiting the natural frequency and the corresponding damping ratio of structural response are useful tools in structural analysis application.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 파라매트릭 모델링 기법을 통해 다양한 대안을 고려할 수 있도록 개발된 StrAuto(이하 전산플랫폼)을 이용하여 감쇠장치에 따른 감쇠비 증가 효과와 풍하중 저감효과를 평가하였다. 비정형 초고층구조물의 수많은 구조시스템 대안 선정을 지원하는 전산플랫폼은 설계자 또는 엔지니어에게 초기 대안을 결정하는데 있어 유용한 도구가 된다. 감쇠장치의 용량 및 추가 요구감쇠비의 크기를 산정하는 과정에서 중요한 원 구조물의 감쇠비에 대한 추정은 풍하중에 대한 실계측 자료를 기반으로 수행된 국내외 관련 연구의 결과를 사용하였다. 감쇠장치는 층간 설치형 수동형 감쇠장치와 질량형 능동형 감쇠장치 두 가지 유형을 고려하였다. 감쇠장치에 의해 추가되는 감쇠비는 FEMA에서 제안한 식을 이용하여 등가 정적 해석을 수행하여 산정하였다. 전산 플랫폼 내부에 감쇠장치의 용량을 최적화하는 알고리즘을 내장함으로써 최적의 감쇠장치 설계안을 자동적으로 도출할 수 있다. 감쇠장치 설치에 따른 물량저감 효과는 풍하중 저감계수로 평가될 수 있으며, 455m 높이의 초고층구조물을 대상으로 제안한 방법의 유효성을 검증하였다. 제안한 방법을 사용하여 비선형 시간이력 해석을 통해 얻어진 지붕층 변위와 층별 전단력을 근사적으로 추정할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.185-209
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• 2016

Across-wind aerodynamic damping ratios are identified from the wind-induced acceleration responses of 15 aeroelastic models of rectangular super-high-rise buildings in various simulated wind conditions by using the random decrement technique. The influences of amplitude-dependent structural damping ratio and natural frequency on the estimation of the aerodynamic damping ratio are discussed and the identifying method for aerodynamic damping is improved at first. Based on these works, effects of turbulence intensity $I_u$, aspect ratio H/B, and side ratio B/D on the across-wind aerodynamic damping ratio are investigated. The results indicate that turbulence intensity and side ratio are the most important factors that affect across-wind aerodynamic damping ratio, whereas aspect ratio indirectly affects the aerodynamic damping ratio by changing the response amplitude. Furthermore, empirical aerodynamic damping functions are proposed to estimate aerodynamic damping ratios at low and high reduced speeds for rectangular super-high-rise buildings with an aspect ratio in the range of 5 to 10, a side ratio of 1/3 to 3, and turbulence intensity varying from 1.7% to 25%.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.91-103
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• 2023

Tuned liquid dampers (TLDs) are increasingly being used as efficient dynamic vibration absorbers to mitigate wind-induced vibration in super high-rise buildings. However, the damping characteristics of screens and the control effectiveness of actual structures must be investigated to improve the reliability of TLDs in engineering applications. In this study, a numerical TLD model is developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and a simulation method for achieving the coupled vibration of the structure and TLD is proposed. The numerical results are verified using shaking table tests, and the effects of the solidity ratio and screen position on the TLD damping ratios are investigated. The TLD control effectiveness is obtained by simulating the wind-induced vibration response of a full-scale structure-TLD system to determine the optimal screen solidity ratio. The effects of the structural frequency, damping ratio, and wind load amplitude on the TLD performance are further analyzed. The TLD damping ratio increases nonlinearly with the solidity ratio, and it increases with the screens towards the tank center and then decreases slightly owing to the hydrodynamic interaction between screens. Full-scale coupled simulations demonstrated that the optimal TLD control effectiveness was achieved when the solidity ratio was 0.46. In addition, structural frequency shifts can significantly weaken the TLD performance. The control effectiveness decreases with an increase in the structural damping ratio, and is insensitive to the wind load amplitude within a certain range, implying that the TLD has a stable damping performance over a range of wind speed variations.