• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.375-384
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• 2015

해상풍력발전의 건설이 여러 가지 환경 및 가설공법 등의 설치환경 등의 원인에 의하여 건설지점이 천해에서 심해로 이동하는 경향을 나타내고 있다. 이러한 경향 속에 해상풍력발전 지지구조물의 심해화에 따른 지지구조물에 대한 연구는 중요성이 더욱 증대될 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 Jacket 구조물에 대하여 Precast Concrete Block 및 Suction pile을 적용한 Jacket 구조물을 제안하고 이에 대하여 구조해석 및 안전성 평가를 실시하였다. 또한 제안된 구조물에 동조액체감쇠기를 적용하여 구조물 진동성능 향상을 도모하고자 하였다. 연구결과, 제안된 신형식 Jacket 구조물은 충분한 안전성을 가지고 있는 것으로 평가되었으며, 동조액체감쇠기를 적용하였을 경우, 약 5%의 진동저감 효과가 있는 것으로 검토되었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.391-401
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• 2019

Control of vibrations against extraordinary excitations such as wind and earthquake is very important to the protection of life and financial concerns. One of the methods of structural control is to use Tuned Liquid Damper (TLD), however due to the nature of TLD only one sloshing frequency can be created when the water is sloshing. Among various ideas proposed to compensate this problem, by changing the angle of some rotatable baffles embedded inside a TLD, a frequency range is created such that these baffles are tuned manually at different frequencies. In this study, the effect of cross sectional shape of container with rotating baffles on seismic behavior of TLD is experimentally studied. For this purpose, rectangular and cylindrical containers are designed and used to suppress the vibrations of a Single Degree-Of-Freedom (SDOF) structure under harmonic and earthquake excitations considering three baffle angles. The results show that the rectangular-shaped damper reduces the structural response in all load cases more than the damper with a cylindrical shape, such that maximum differences of two dampers to reduce the structural displacement and structural acceleration are 5.5% and 3% respectively, when compared to the cases where no baffles are employed.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2017

Earlier numerous studies have been done on implementation of Tuned Liquid Damper (TLD) for structural vibration control by many researchers. As per current review there is no significant study on a sloped bottom TLD. TLD's are passive devices. A TLD is a tank rigidly attached to the structure and filled partially by liquid. When fundamental linear sloshing frequency is tuned to structure's natural frequency large sloshing amplitude is expected. In this study set of experiments are conducted on flat bottom and sloped bottom TLD at beach slope $20^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$, for different types of structures, mass ratio, and depth ratio to investigate the overall effectiveness of TLD and specific effect of TLD parameters on structural response. This experimental study shows that a properly designed TLD reduces structural response. It is also observed that effectiveness of TLD increases with increase in mass ratio. In this experimental study an effectiveness of sloped bottom TLD with beach slope $30^{\circ}$ is investigated and compared with that of flat bottom TLD in reducing the structural response. It is observed from this study that efficiency of sloped bottom TLD in reducing the response of structure is more as compared to that of flat bottom TLD. It is shown that there is good agreement between numerical simulation of flat bottom and sloped bottom TLD and its experimental results. Also an attempt has been made to investigate the effectiveness of sloped bottom TLD with beach slope $20^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.567-576
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• 2018

This manuscript introduces a new damping device which is composed of a water tank and a pendulum. The new damping device can be tuned to multiple frequencies. In addition, it has a higher energy dissipation capacity when compared with the conventional Tuned Liquid Dampers (TLDs). In order to evaluate the efficiency of this new damping device a series of free vibration and forced vibration tests were conducted on a scaled down single-story one-bay steel frame. Two different configurations were studied for the mass of the pendulum that included a completely and a partially submerged mass. It was observed that the completely submerged configuration led to 44% higher damping ratio when compared with the conventional TLD. In addition, the completely submerged configuration reduced the peak displacement response of the structure 1.6 times more than the conventional TLD. The peak acceleration response of the structure equipped with the new damping device was reduced twice more than the conventional TLD. It was also found that, when the excitation frequency is lower than the resonance frequency, the conventional TLD performs better than the partially submerged configuration of the new damping device.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.629-646
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• 2013

One of the most common solutions adopted to reduce vibrations of skyscrapers due to wind or earthquake action is to add external damping devices to these structures, such as a TMD (Tuned Mass Damper) or TLCD (Tuned Liquid Column Damper). It is well known that a TLCD device introduces on the structure a nonlinear damping force whose effect decreases when the amplitude of its motion increases. The main objective of this paper is to describe a Hardware-in-the-Loop test able to validate the effectiveness of the TLCD by simulating the real behavior of a tower subjected to the combined action of wind and a TLCD, considering also the nonlinear effects associated with the damping device behavior. Within this test procedure a scaled TLCD physical model represents the hardware component while the building dynamics are reproduced using a numerical model based on a modal approach. Thanks to the Politecnico di Milano wind tunnel, wind forces acting on the building were calculated from the pressure distributions measured on a scale model. In addition, in the first part of the paper, a new method for evaluating the dissipating characteristics of a TLCD based on an energy approach is presented. This new methodology allows direct linking of the TLCD to be directly linked to the increased damping acting on the structure, facilitating the preliminary design of these devices.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2012

본 연구진은 최근 U자 형태인 액체댐퍼의 수직관을 다수의 셀(사각 기둥)로 나누어 셀 상부를 개폐함에 따라 다양한 고유진동수를 쉽게 재현하는 새로운 멀티셀 액체댐퍼를 제시하였다. 이러한 댐퍼를 1층 건물 모형에 설치하여 진동대 실험을 수행하여 건물응답이 감소되는 것을 검증하였다. 64층의 풍응답인 가속도를 제어할 수 있도록 댐퍼를 설계하기 위하여 건물을 1자유도계로 축소하였다. 가속도 기반 상사비인 1/20를 적용하여 1층 건물 모형과 새로운 댐퍼를 제작하였다. 설계 진동수인 0.65Hz가 구현되도록 모형건물의 질량과 강성을 쉽게 조절할 수 있도록 탈부착식으로 제작하였다. 모형건물은 중량을 부담하는 질량부와 하부에 스프링과 LM guide가 설치된 구동부로 나누어서 제작되었다. 18개의 셀을 가지는 액체댐퍼를 제작하여 고유진동수 조절 범위가 0.65Hz~0.81Hz인 것을 파악하였다. 대형 진동대에 설치한 모형건물의 일방향 가진을 통하여 모형의 응답을 측정하고 모형상부에 멀티셀 액체댐퍼가 설치되었을 경우 모형의 응답을 측정하여 비교하였다. 진동대 가속도를 입력과 모형건물의 가속도를 출력으로 하는 전달함수를 통해 결과를 나타내었다. 예상한 바와 같이 멀티셀 액체댐퍼의 고유진동수를 건물의 진동수에 동조시켰을 경우 건물의 가속도 응답이 감소함을 알 수 있었다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.103-107
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• 2013

The structure of a variable liquid column oscillator(a VLCO) is analogous to that of the tuned liquid column damper used to suppress oscillatory motion in large structures like tall buildings and cargo ships. The VLCO is a system absorbing high kinetic energy of accelerated motions of multiple floating bodies in the effect of air springs occurred by installation of inner air chambers. Thus, VLCO can improve the efficiency of energy than wave energy converters of the activating object type made in Pelamis Company. In this research, the experiment was performed that a simple floating body was filled with internal fluid of same draft. The characteristics of motions were evaluated in each case of the opening or closing of the upper valves.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2014

The structure of a variable liquid column oscillator(a VLCO) is analogous to that of the tuned liquid column damper used to suppress oscillatory motion in large structures like tall buildings and cargo ships. The VLCO is a system absorbing high kinetic energy of accelerated motions of the multiple floating bodies in the effect of air springs occurred by installation of inner air chambers. Thus, VLCO can improve the efficiency of energy than wave energy converters of the activating object type made in Pelamis Company. In this research, the experiment was performed in two models of same draft. The one is that weights were filled, and the other is that water was filled. The numerical results were estimated by assuming that do not exist internal flow, and the results were compared with the results of experiments.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.765-772
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• 2002

초고층 건물의 가속도 레벨을 줄이기 위해서 TMD, TLD, VED와 같은 다양한 진동제어장치들이 많은 국내외 연구자들에 의해 연구되고 있다. TLD는 다른 제진장치에 비해 설치의 간편함 및 유지비용이 저렴한 장점이 있다. 그러나 물의 요동을 평가함에 있어서 어려움이 있으므로 동조액체댐퍼의 동적특성에 대한 실험 및 해석적 검증이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 TLD를 100층 규모의 초고층건물에 설치할 경우를 상정하여 자유진동실험과 백색잡음을 이용한 강제진동실험을 통하여 TLD의 제진성능을 확인하고자 하였다. TLD의 질량비, 감쇠네트수, TLD 형상비 등을 주요실험변수로 설정하였으며, 물탱크를 설치한 건물의 반응값들이 건물 단독인 경우보다 적게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 또한 질량비, 감쇠네트, 형상비가 커질수록 감쇠성능이 개선됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.518-521
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• 2005

The Structures or buildings nowadays draw more complexity in design due to space limitation and other factor that affect the height and dimensions, that results to instability. So the various methods have been carried out to improve the safety factor from an earthquake or a boom until recently. But, it is very hard to get model precisely because these structures are the non-linear and multi-variable systems. For this reason, we developed the active control system that is applied the adaptive control method on the U type Tuned Liquid Damper(TLD) passive control system. It is proven that the proposed active control strategy of the plate carrying U type TLD system is the more effective control method to suppress the vibration of the structure. The entire hybrid control system is composed of the actuator acted in the opposite direction of the TLD system's motion direction and the active control device with an air pressure adjuster. This paper proposed the adaptive control methods to improve the problem of U type TLD system which is used widely for the passive control of the building. And it is proved by the simulation. In advanced, it is developed the pressure control method that is improved the hybrid controller's performance by using air chamber pressure controller. These methods take the advantage of the decrease of the maximum displacement by using the controller as soon as the impact is loaded. This is a very important element for the safety design and economic design of structures.