Affiliation:
1. School of Civil and Geomatic Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia
Abstract
The dynamic performance of base isolation systems provides an effective means to reduce the seismic vulnerability of buildings. However, large displacements in the base isolation during seismic events pose a major challenge for this control system. Recently, novel control systems have been implemented to control and reduce the excessive displacements. This study presents an evaluation of the seismic performance of unconnected-fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators (U-FREI) and variable orifice damper (VOD) devices used together as a hybrid control system for a low-degree-of-freedom reference structure by employing real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) testing technique. This physical cybernetic testing methodology allows a dynamic system of interest to be substructured into two components: numerical and experimental. In this study, the numerical substructure corresponds to a 2-degree of freedom model, representing a reference structure, and an experimental substructure was formed using the hybrid control system described. To develop an interface between the two substructures, a horizontal transfer system (HTS) was implemented and coupled with a vertical transfer system (VTS). Using RTHS, the performance of the reference structure and the hybrid control system was evaluated under six seismic events: CAM, CAT, El Centro, Loma Prieta, Pizarro, and Chihuahua, at a maximum acceleration of 0.10 g (0.981 m·s−2). The experimental behavior of the hybrid control system allows the reference structure to reduce its maximum drift by more than 24% compared to the fixed structure. Finally, the performance and accuracy of the RTHS tests were calculated.
Subject
Mechanics of Materials,Building and Construction,Civil and Structural Engineering
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