Adaptive Passive Negative Stiffness and Damping for Retrofit of Existing Tall Buildings with Tuned Mass Damper: TMD-NSD
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 148, Issue 11
Abstract
It is known that the performance of traditional passive tuned mass dampers (TMDs) is highly sensitive to vibration frequency. The fundamental frequency of existing tall buildings may shift to lower value due to damage or other reasons. In this regard, this paper deals with the resultant detuning problems of a traditional passive TMD for vibration control by retrofitting it with a passive adaptive negative stiffness device (NSD). The applied NSD not only provides negative stiffness for adjusting the TMD’s de-tuned stiffness at its working stage, but also offers a fail-safe limiting stop for the TMD at large deformation/stroke. In this study, compared to the original TMD, a novel TMD-NSD assembly is proposed that is shown to be more effective for serviced structures. For example, the original TMD can only provide about 2.83% additional damping ratio to frequency-changed structures, while the newly proposed TMD-NSD further improves the damping ratio to 5.34%. Moreover, in the study it is found that the TMD-NSD also outperforms the TMD in resisting dynamic lateral loading such as along winds, cross winds, and earthquakes.
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Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available from the corresponding author by request, such as wind and earthquake excitations used for simulation and all simulated results used to generate figures.
Acknowledgments
The second author gratefully acknowledges funding by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. NSF-CMMI–NEESR-0830391. This study was partly supported by the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering of China (Grant No. SLDRCE13-MB-01) and the “China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2021M700310)” with “National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talent (Grant No. BX20220026),” which are all gratefully acknowledged.
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Received: Oct 20, 2021
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Discussion open until: Feb 6, 2023
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Adaptive systems
- Buildings
- Construction engineering
- Construction methods
- Continuum mechanics
- Damping
- Dynamic loads
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering mechanics
- Existing buildings
- High-rise buildings
- Motion (dynamics)
- Rehabilitation
- Solid mechanics
- Stiffening
- Structural behavior
- Structural dynamics
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Systems engineering
- Systems management
- Vibration
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