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    A experimental study of a cable-pulleys spring-damper energy dissipation system for buildings

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    Authors
    Hernandez, Francisco
    Astroza, Rodrigo
    Beltran, Juan Felipe
    Zhang, Xihong
    Mercado, Vicente
    Date
    2022
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Hernandez, F. and Astroza, R. and Beltran, J.F. and Zhang, X. and Mercado, V. 2022. A experimental study of a cable-pulleys spring-damper energy dissipation system for buildings. Journal of Building Engineering. 51: ARTN 104034.
    Source Title
    Journal of Building Engineering
    DOI
    10.1016/j.jobe.2022.104034
    ISSN
    2352-7102
    Faculty
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
    School
    School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89085
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    An energy dissipation mechanism made of a cable-pulleys system placed in series with a spring-damper device (fluid viscous) is experimentally studied. The system aims to provide high damping ratios for all the structural modes by using a unique spring-damper device to dissipate the seismic energy of the entire structure (and all its structural modes). Shake table tests and pull-back tests are carried out on a scaled five-story structure to compare the dissipation capabilities provided by the proposed system. Therefore, the same structure is tested under different configurations that included: i) the structure itself without any energy mitigation device, ii) the structure with viscous dampers installed on each story, iii) the structure with the proposed cable-pulleys and the spring-damper system, and iv) the structure with the cable-pulleys system but without any dissipation device. The experimental results showed that the structure with the proposed system exhibits a highly nonlinear response (mainly explained by the cable-pulleys interaction) evidenced by the significant change of the structure's dynamic properties during the time. The Short-Time Transfer Function plots show that the structure's natural frequencies change significantly when the cable-pulleys system is included. Complementarily, a novel time-variant system identification approach, termed Mod-ζ(var), is proposed, which allows estimating the time-variant evolution of the structure's dynamic properties during seismic tests (natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes). Moreover, the Mod-ζ(var) approach also enables computing relevant engineering quantities such as the empirical response spectrum from experimental data. It is found that the analyzed energy dissipation system provides high damping ratios (>10%) for all the structural modes, allowing reducing the seismic demands in terms of the empirical response spectrum, inter-story drifts, inter-story shear forces, peak accelerations, and Housner Intensities at each floor.

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