Abstract:
This study presents the seismic mitigation investigation subjected to white-noise excitation for Dual Damping Tuned Mass Damper (DD-TMD) that combines viscous damping with hysteretic damping. To begin with, the configuration, advantages, and applications of DD-TMD are introduced, and the mechanism for DD-TMD is summarized.
H2 optimization for DD-TMD is proposed to obtain the optimal parameters through the algebraic solution, and the design process for DD-TMD is carried out. In addition, the effective additional viscous damping of the DD-TMD is further illustrated upon the
H2 optimization for DD-TMD, which lay an application foundation for pertinent engineering design. As a real application of DD-TMD, Variable Friction Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper (VFP-TMD) was applied as an illustration of DD-TMD to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods for vibration control subjected to 20 sets of earthquake records. Results indicated that DD-TMD with
H2 optimization provided a comparative advantage on seismic mitigation capacity toward conventional viscous damping TMD. The equivalent viscous damping had successfully performed the constant friction damping by stochastic linearization method, indicating that
H2 optimization based on DD-TMD provided a reliable and functional design process for the VFP-TMD with inevitable initial friction coefficient. Compared with the former study on VFP-TMD by numerical searching method, the proposed DD-TMD design process with
H2 optimization performes better on seismic control performance and improved 16.6% of damping energy dissipation capacity.