• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.24 no.3
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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.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.8 no.4 s.29
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• pp.115-120
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• 1996

유연구조물(柔軟構造物)의 수동제어(受動制御) 시스템인 TLCD 감쇠기(減衰器)의 지진(地震)에 대한 성능(性能) 평가(評價)를 확률적(確率的) 랜덤 진동(振動) 해석방법(解析方法)을 이용하여 연구하였다. 대표적(代表的) 지진운동(地震運動)은 확률적(確率的) 비정상(非正常) 추계과정방법(推計過程方法)을 이용(利用)하였으며, TLCD 감쇠기(減衰器)의 비선형(非線型) 감쇠력(減衰力)에 대한 계산(計算)은 등가선형기법(等價線形技法)을 이용(利用)하였다. 매개변수(媒介變數)에 대한 연구(硏究)를 통하여 TLCD 감쇠기(減衰器)의 성능(性能) 평가(評價)를 수행(遂行)하였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.227-234
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• 2018

Researches regarding measurement and control of the dynamic behavior of liquid such as sloshing have been actively on undertaken in various engineering fields. Liquid vibration is being measured in the study of tuned liquid dampers(TLDs), which attenuates wind motion of buildings even in building structures. To overcome the limitations of existing wave height measurement sensors, a method of measuring liquid vibration in a TLD using a laser Doppler vibrometer(LDV) and galvanometer scanner is proposed in this paper: the principle of measuring speed and displacement is discussed; a system of multi-point measurement with a single point of LDV according to the operating principles of the galvanometer scanner is established. 4-point liquid vibration on the TLD is measured, and the time domain data of each point is compared with the conventional video sensing data. It was confirmed that the waveform is transformed into the traveling wave and the standing wave. In addition, the data with measurement delay are cross-correlated to perform singular value decomposition. The natural frequencies and mode shapes are compared using theoretical and video sensing results.