scholarly journals Vibration Control of a High-Rise Slender Structure with a Spring Pendulum Pounding Tuned Mass Damper

Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Hong-Nan Li ◽  
Peng Zhang

High-rise structures are normally tall and slender with a large height-width ratio. Under the strong seismic action, such a structure may experience violent vibrations and large deformation. In this paper, a spring pendulum pounding tuned mass damper (SPPTMD) system is developed to reduce the seismic response of high-rise structures. This SPPTMD system consists of a barrel limiter with the built-in viscoelastic material and a spring pendulum (SP). This novel type of tuned mass damper (TMD) relies on the internal resonance feature of the spring pendulum and the collision between the added mass and barrel limiter to consume the energy of the main structure. Based on the Hertz-damper model, the motion equation of the structure-SPPTMD system is derived. Furthermore, a power transmission tower is selected to evaluate the vibration reduction performance of the SPPTMD system. Numerical results revealed that the SPPTMD system can effectively reduce structural vibrations; the reduction ratio is greater than that of the spring pendulum. Finally, the influence of the key parameters on the vibration control performance is conducted for future applications.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quoc Huong Cao

Abstract A new hybrid type of the Tuned Mass Damper (HTMD), which consists of a Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) fixed on the top of a traditional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD), is developed for vibration control of an offshore platform. The results obtained from the parametric investigation show that the mass ratio between TLCD and TMD significantly affects the HTMD's performance. To assess the effectiveness and robustness of HTMD, extensive comparisons are made between an optimized HTMD and an optimum TMD with the same weight as the HTMD. The numerical computations indicate that the proposed HTMD offers a higher level of effectiveness in suppressing structural vibrations compared with a traditional TMD. However, the optimum HTMD is not robust in resisting the variation of the structural stiffness.


Author(s):  
Thuan Nguyen ◽  
Nanako Miura ◽  
Akira Sone

Tuned mass damper (TMD) device has been a popular vibration control system for moderns as high-rise building, bridge to suppress excessive vibration due to environment or human loading. Moreover, multiple tuned mass dampers have received much attention in the researched. An optimal design theory for bridge implemented with multiple TMD devices is proposed in this paper. The proposed method chooses the objective function with the constraints on the peaks which are at the same heights over frequency ranges of interest. This proposed method successfully reduces vibration of bridge traveled by a car. In a future study, we will extend the optimal design theory for the cases with more than one car and the bridge under seismic loading.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1007-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Tian ◽  
Guodong Gao ◽  
Canxing Qiu ◽  
Kunjie Rong

Statistics from past strong earthquakes revealed that electricity transmission towers were vulnerable to earthquake excitations. It is necessary to mitigate the seismic responses of power transmission towers to ensure the safety of such structures. In this research, a novel shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper is proposed, and seismic vibration control of power transmission tower using shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper based on three types of shape memory alloy materials (i.e. NiTi, M-CuAlBe, P-CuAlBe) is analyzed. The detailed three-dimensional finite element model of a power transmission tower incorporated with shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper is developed using numerical simulation software ANSYS. The control effects of shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper on the seismic vibration of power transmission tower are assessed using nonlinear time history analysis method. The interested seismic performance indices include displacement, acceleration, and base shear force. In addition to the shape memory alloy materials, the influence of seismic intensity and frequency ratio are conducted for the optimal design. It is shown that installing shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper well reduced the seismic responses of power transmission tower. The comparison between different shape memory alloys indicated that the damping of the shape memory alloy-tuned mass damper is beneficial to mitigate the vibrations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Tian ◽  
Qiqi Yu ◽  
Ruisheng Ma

The seismic control of power transmission tower-line coupled system subjected to multicomponent excitations is studied in this paper. The schematic of tuned mass damper is introduced, and equations of motion of a system with tuned mass damper under multi-component excitations are proposed. Three-dimensional finite tower-line system models are created based on practical engineering in studying the response of this system without and with control. The time domain analysis takes into account geometric nonlinearity due to finite deformation. The optimal design of the transmission tower-line system with tuned mass damper is obtained according to different mass ratio. The effects of wave travel, coherency loss, and different site conditions on the system without and with control are investigated, respectively.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document