An experimental study on using MR damper to mitigate longitudinal seismic response of a suspension bridge |
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| Authors: | Meng-Gang Yang Zheng-Qing Chen Xu-Gang Hua |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Central South University, Changsha 410075, PR China;2. Wind Engineering Research Center, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, the seismic response reduction performance of magnetorheological (MR) damper is experimentally investigated for a suspension bridge. First, the force–displacement and force–velocity curves under a range of excitation frequencies, amplitudes and currents are obtained by mechanical behavior test of the RD1097 type MR damper. Then a new non-linear hysteretic model is proposed to model the mechanical behavior of the MR damper and the model parameters are identified from test data. An experimental method, as well as a set of testing setups with the MR damper for longitudinal seismic response reduction of a SDOF generalized system representing the fundamental longitudinal mode of suspension bridge, is developed. Finally, the seismic response reduction experiment subject to three kinds of earthquake excitations, including the Pingsheng Bridge earthquake wave, the El-Centro wave and the Taft wave, is carried out, and nine control cases, including uncontrolled, six passive control schemes with different input currents and two semi-active Bang–Bang control schemes, are tested. The results verify that the seismic response reduction experimental method is feasible and the good performance of seismic longitudinal response reduction of the suspension bridge can be achieved by MR damper. It is also shown that the passive control with optimum input current outperforms the semi-active Bang–Bang controls. |
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| Keywords: | Suspension bridge MR damper Mechanical model Seismic response reduction experiment |
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