PAKISTAN ENGINEERING COUNCIL

Two Days Short Course on

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

In Collaboration with NUST

15-16 May 2007

DAMPERS AND BASE ISOLATION

SEQUENCE
UNDERLYING CONCEPT
DAMPERS AND THEIR TYPES

BEARINGS AND THEIR TYPES

APPLICATIONS

Earthquake protection - present

Shear walls are made of reinforced concrete and add strength and stiffness to the building. Shear walls can well handle short duration earthquakes, but if the duration of an earthquake is longer, the stresses developed in the shear walls become so high that they may fail and cause building collapse. Shear walls in a structure can raise the structural cost by 7-10 %

Earthquake protection - present

Braced frames and moment-resistant frames maintain structural integrity by flexibility

Earthquake protection - concept

Approach - force vs energy
Use of seismic forces Based on acceleration Review resulting lateral drift/movement

Conflict - for stiff soil site, larger the acceleration

Larger the seismic force Stronger the structure Stiffer the structure Higher the seismic acceleration/forces

Earthquake protection - concept

Strong stiff structure is good conceptually and lateral drift is also minimum Contradiction comes from energy dissipation which comes from larger displacements Dissipation of seismic forces require large displacements, drift control requires smaller displacements Useful seismic systems should have predictable stable and non degradable cyclic behavior Base isolation, Moment frames with dampers and Dual-resistance systems with built-in redundancy

Earthquake protection - trends

A building can itself dissipate or dampen the energy from earthquakes. However, the capacity of buildings to dissipate energy before they begin to deform and damage is quite limited. By equipping a building with devices which have high damping capacity, we can greatly decrease the seismic energy entering the building, and thus decrease building damage. Damping devices are usually installed as part of bracing systems. This arrangement provides the column with additional support. Most earthquake ground motion is in a horizontal direction; so, it is a building's columns which normally undergo the most displacement relative to the motion of the ground.

Earthquake protection - trends

The most common advanced technique is base isolation. The structure is supported by a series of bearing pads which are placed between the building and its foundation. The bearing pads are made from layers of rubber sandwiched together with layers of steel. The bearing is very stiff and strong in the vertical direction, but flexible in the horizontal direction.

Braced frames and momentresistant frames

DAMPERS

Fluid dampers
The fluid damper consists of a stainless steel piston with bronze orifice head. It is filled with silicone oil. The piston head utilizes specially shaped passages which alter the flow of the damper fluid and thus alter the resistance characteristics of the damper.

Linear friction dampers

Linear friction dampers consist of sliding steel plates and work on the principal that when two metal surfaces slide, friction heat is produced and energy gets dissipated. These types of dampers are susceptible to corrosion and cold welding which has a direct effect on the yielding threshold.

Rotational friction dampers

The rotational friction damper dissipates energy by friction of two plates rotating around a friction pad. It is the same principle as when a car is braked and its kinetic energy is dissipated through the rotational movement in the disc brake around a friction pad. The harder the brake is clamped, the more energy is dissipated.

Energy dissipation various methods

The hysteresis (force-deflection curve) shows the efficiency of a damper during an earthquake. The (blue) area inside the curve is the total dissipated energy. The curve shows that the rotational friction damper dissipates more energy than any other damper today.
Friction Yielding metal

Viscoelastic

Fluid

period shift

feasible buildings
SPECTRAL ACCELERATION

CONCEPT OF BASE ISOLATION

Inter story drift
isolation range
5% 10% 20%

Rigid body motion

0.0

0.5

Tf

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

Ti

3.0

PERIOD

a)

5%

SPECTRAL DISPLACEMENT

applied flexible isolators

10% 20%

applied dampers

0.0

0.5

Tf

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

Ti

3.0

PERIOD b)

SOFT FIRST STORY-IZMIT

Anti-EQ design to make substructure (piers) of bridges safe for this bending moment.
Fixed support Movable supports To protect superstructure

Strong bending moment

To protect substructure

The most suitable approach to seismic protection by replacing conventional bearings by HDRB

ELASTOMERIC - BASED SYSTEMS

Base Isolation

Separate Type

Built-in type

Standard Laminated Rubber Bearing + Steel-bar Damper + Lead Plug Damper + Hydraulic Damper

High damping rubber bearing

Lead rubber bearing

MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ELASTOMETRIC BEARINGS

Horizontal stiffness KH=GA/tr

G- Shear modulus of elastomer, A is a full cross section area, tr -total thickness of rubber

Vertical stiffness Kv=EcA/tr

Ec-instantaneous compression modulus of rubber steel composite and is controlled by shape factor S, for circular pad of radius R and thickness t, S=R/2t, for square pad of site a and thickness t, S=a/4t

For single circular pad Ec=6GS2

For square pad Ec= 6.73GS2

Natural rubber/ high damping bearings

At 100% shear strain damping is increased between 10%-20%. Damping is neither viscous nor hysteretic (between).
Neoprene becomes extremely stiff at -40 C and natural rubber at -55 C

Composite material rubber+steel shims Thick steel endplate Many steel shims (vertical load capacity & stiffness and prevent lateral bulging of rubber. Rubber sheets are vulcanized and bonded onto thin steel Plates under pressure and heat

LEAD RUBBER BEARING (the most frequently used)

Energy dissipation core (reduced EQ forces & displacement by energy dissipation)
Cover rubber Protecting steel plates from corrosion

Internal rubber leria+ steel reinforces plate

Lead must fit tightly in element bearing, lead plug is slightly larger than hole (1%) and forcing it in.

Thick steel endplate

Steel plates in bearing force lead plug to deformed in shear.

Friction pendulum (spherically shaped sliding bearing)-the biggest in the world

Spherical stainless steel surface Slider

Lateral force that slide the structure depend of curvature and vertical load
Energy dissipation is generated by friction between slider and spherical surface Coefficient of friction is not constant (varies with time and temperature)

Laminated Rubber Bearing (low-damping natural) + Steel Rod Damper

Purpose to have linear viscous dynamic model (rubber fitted the model damper was not exactly linear viscous element)

Material in shear quite linear up to Shear strain of 100% damping 2-3%

Advantage Simple to manufacture Disadvantage require elaborate connections and metallic dampers are prone to low-cycle fatigue

RUBBER BEARING,STEEL DAMPERS AND OIL DAMPER

Pseudo Dynamic Test

Load-Displacement Hysteresis Loop of Pier (Type SI)

150

100

Lateral Load (kN)

50

-50

-100

-150 -150

-100

-50

50

100

150

Displacement (mm)

Pseudo Dynamic Test of Seismically Isolated Bridge

Elastic Behavior of Pier

Dynamic Field Test

tonf
Po

t1 Loading Stabilization

t2 Quick Release

sec

Low level test Imposed initial displacement Isolator behavior

High level test

Yield displacement of isolator

Linear

Design displacement of isolator

Nonlinear

"PESTALOZZI school first base isolated building in the world

4-story, 8-unit apartment building in West Java, Indonesia completed 1997.

Implementation to Seismic Retrofit Retrofitted Existing

Dampers (LRB or HDR)

Steel Bearings

Friction Bearings Concrete Block

 Seismic Retrofit of Dangsan Railway Bridge (1999)

Replacement of the old bridge due to cracks in superstructure New superstructure Increasing seismic capacity using seismic isolator Reuse of foundations Retrofit of concrete piers

OLD

NEW

ACTIVE MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUID DAMPER

Vertical force = 53 400 kN Longitudinal force=8 900 kN Lateral force= 4 450 kN

Prestressed reaction wall

Steel cross beam Horizontal actuator Vert. Dis=0.127m Lon. Dis.=1.22m Lat. Dis.=0.61m

Moving platen

Energy Dissipation

Appropriate Scale

FUTURE!