• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.1127-1141
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• 2015

The optimum design of liquid column dampers in seismic vibration control considering system parameter uncertainty is usually performed by minimizing the unconditional response of a structure without any consideration to the variation of damper performance due to uncertainty. However, the system so designed may be sensitive to the variations of input system parameters due to uncertainty. The present study is concerned with robust design optimization (RDO) of liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) considering random system parameters characterizing the primary structure and ground motion model. The RDO is obtained by minimizing the weighted sum of the mean value of the root mean square displacement of the primary structure as well as its standard deviation. A numerical study elucidates the importance of the RDO procedure for design of LCVA system by comparing the RDO results with the results obtained by the conventional stochastic structural optimization procedure and the unconditional response based optimization.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.561-573
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• 2010

The potential of the liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) as a seismic vibration control device for structures has been explored in this paper. In this work, the structure has been modeled as a linear, viscously damped single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system. The governing differential equations of motion for the damper liquid and for the coupled structure-LCVA system have been derived from dynamic equilibrium. The nonlinear orifice damping in the LCVA has been linearized by a stochastic equivalent linearization technique. A transfer function formulation for the structure-LCVA system has been presented. The design parameters of the LCVA have been identified and by applying the transfer function formulation the optimum combination of these parameters has been determined to obtain the most efficient control performance of the LCVA in terms of the reduction in the root-mean-square (r.m.s.) displacement response of the structure. The study has been carried out for an example structure subjected to base input characterized by a white noise power spectral density function (PSDF). The sensitivity of the performance of the LCVA to the coefficient of head loss and to the tuning ratio have also been examined and compared with that of the liquid column damper (LCD). Finally, a simulation study has been carried out with a recorded accelerogram, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the LCVA.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.461-472
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• 2017

Explicit design formulae of liquid column vibration absorber (LCVA) for suppressing harmonic vibration of structures with small inherent structural damping are developed in this study. The developed design formulae are also applicable to the design of a tuned mass damper (TMD) and a tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) for damped structures under harmonic force excitation. The optimum parameters of LCVA for suppressing harmonic vibration of undamped structures are first derived. Numerical searching of the optimum parameters of tuned vibration absorber system for suppressing harmonic vibration of damped structure is conducted. Explicit formulae for these optimum parameters are then obtained by a series of curve fitting techniques. The analytical result shows that the control performance of TLCD for reducing harmonic vibration of undamped structure is always better than that of non-uniform LCVA for same mass and length ratios. As for the effects of structural damping on the optimum parameters, it is found that the optimum tuning ratio decreases and the optimum damping ratio increases as the structural damping is increased. Furthermore, the optimum head loss coefficient is inversely proportional to the amplitude of excitation force and increases as the structural damping is increased. Numerical verification of the developed explicit design expressions is also conducted and the developed expressions are demonstrated to be reasonably accurate for design purposes.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.121-125
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• 2007

LCVA has an advantage that its natural frequency can be easily controlled by changing the area ratio of the vertical column and horizontal part. The previous studies investigated the dynamic characteristics of the LCVA under harmonic load. This study experimentally obtained the first and second mode natural frequencies of the LCVA from shaking table tests using white noise and compared the values with the ones by previous study. Test results show that the measured first mode natural frequency of the LCVA is larger than the calculated one when the area ratio is larger than 1. The second mode frequency increases with the increasing area ratio, which is due to the sloshing motion effect resulting from the large area of the vertical column.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.653-658
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• 2008

LCVA has an advantage that its natural frequency can be easily controlled by changing the area ratio of the vertical column and horizontal part. The previous studies investigated the dynamic characteristics of the LCVA under harmonic load. This study experimentally obtained the first and second mode natural frequencies of the LCVA from shaking table tests using white noise and compared the values with the ones by previous study. Test results show that the measured first mode natural frequency of the LCVA has a different value compared with calculated one. The effective length($L_e$) was revised using by power equation. In the Case01 to 19, the standard deviation($s_r$) is 4.7292 and the coefficient of correlation(r) is 0.9856. In the Case21 to 61, the standard deviation ($s_r$) is 14.2143 and the coefficient of correlation(r) is 0.9935. The second mode frequency increases with the increasing area ratio, which is due to the sloshing motion effect resulting from the large area of the vertical column.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.119-126
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• 2009

LCVA has an advantage that its natural frequency can be easily controlled by changing the area ratio of the vertical column and horizontal part. The previous studies investigated the dynamic characteristics of the LCVA under harmonic load. This study experimentally obtained the first and second mode natural frequencies of the LCVA from shaking table tests using white noise and compared the values with the ones by previous study. Test results show that the measured first mode natural frequency of the LCVA has a different value compared with calculated one. The effective length($L_e$) was revised using by power equation. In the case01 to 19, the standard deviation($S_r$) is 4.7292 and the coefficient of correlation(r) is 0.9856. In the case21 to 61, the standard deviation($S_r$) is 14.2143 and the coefficient of correlation(r) is 0.9935. The second mode frequency increases with the increasing area ratio, which is due to the sloshing motion effect resulting from the large area of the vertical column.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2009

본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 비선형성을 포함하는 액체기둥진동흡진기(LCVA)의 감쇠항에 대한 등가선형화된 운동방정식을 바탕으로하여 가진입력인 진동대 가속도와 출력인 제어력의 관계인 전달함수를 해석적인 식으로 규명하는 것이다. 둘째, LCVA의 주요설계변수인 수직기둥과 수평기둥의 단면적비의 변화에 따른 진동특성분석이다. 셋째, 동조의 수단으로 이용되는 수직기둥 액체의 높이를 변화시켜 진동특성을 분석하는 것이다. LCVA를 진동대 위에 설치하고 가진하여 제어력을 측정하여 실험 전달함수를 구하였다. 이것을 해석적인 전달함수와 비교 및 최적화작업을 수행하여 LCVA의 진동특성변수에 영향을 미치는 고유진동수, 감쇠비 및 질량비 등을 파악하였다. 실험결과, 액체 수위 및 단면적비의 변화에 따라 감쇠비 및 참여질량비의 특성이 변화하였다. 수직기둥과 수평기둥이 교차하는 엘보우에서 액체의 흐름 변화로 인하여, LCVA 실험체의 수직기둥 단면적이 작아질수록 감쇠비와 참여질량비가 증가하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2009년도 정기 학술대회
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• pp.119-124
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• 2009

This paper proposes a tuned liquid column sloshing damper(TLCSD) and presents experimental results to evaluate its control performance. The proposed damper acts as a tuned liquid column damper(TLCD) and a tuned liquid damper(TLD), respectively, in both principal axes of building structures. Shaking table test was performed to grasp its dynamic characteristics. Testing results showed that under inclined incident excitations, a TLCSD used in this study have dynamic characteristics coupled by both TLCD and TLD.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.573-591
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• 2012

In this study, a procedure to design an optimal LCVA that maximizes the equivalent damping ratio added to the primary structure subjected to along-wind excitation is proposed. That design procedure does not only consider the natural frequency and damping ratio of the LCVA, but also the proportion of the U-shaped liquid, which is closely related to the participation ratio of the liquid mass in inertial force. In addition, constraints to ensure the U-shape of the liquid are considered in the design process, so that suboptimal solutions that violate the optimal tuning law partly are adopted as a candidate of the optimal LCVA. The proposed design procedure of the LCVA is applied to the control of the 76-story benchmark building, and the optimal proportions of the liquid shape under various design conditions are compared.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.429-437
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수평관과 수직관의 단면이 다른 액체기둥흡진기(LCVA)의 제진효과를 극대화하기 위한 최적형상을 수치 해석에 의한 변수연구를 통해 찾았다. 특정 진동수에 동조되고, 동일한 총질량을 가지면서 치수 및 수위와 관련된 구속조건을 만족하는 다양한 형상의 LCVA를 설계하고, 이 가운데 가장 큰 등가감쇠비를 획득하는 형상을 찾았다. 그 결과 LCVA 형상의 설계에서 수위변동폭이 최적형상을 결정하는 중요한 구속조건 역할을 한다는 것을 확인하였다. 유체가 운동하는 평면과 직교하는 방향의 LCVA 수평폭을 증가시킬수록 등가감쇠비가 증가하였으며, 증가율은 점차 둔화되는 것으로 나타나 적정 수평폭의 결정이 중요한 것으로 나타났다.