Detailed investigation on Seismic response of linear and nonlinear symmetric and asymmetric system

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Detailed investigation on Seismic response of linear and nonlinear
symmetric and asymmetric system
U. Roy [1], S. Pandey [2]
[1] Department of Civil Engineering, M. Tech Student, Techno India University, WB, India
[2] Department of Civil Engineering, Assistant Professor, Techno India University, WB, India
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1. Abstract
The study refers to the structural control systems. It’s
including passive linear viscous dampers (LVDs) and
nonlinear viscous dampers. That were placed in a two-
way, asymmetric, 20-story structure (NLVDs). Bi-
directional seismic excitations of previous earthquakes
are used on the structure. The displacement, velocity,
and acceleration responses for the multi-story
asymmetric building are calculated by using a state
space technique to numerically solve the underlying
equations of motion. The numerical investigation yielded
the dampers ideal parameters. A comparative evaluation
of the controlled response and the analogous
uncontrolled response is conducted to look into the
efficiency of dampers in the asymmetric construction.
Also, the analysis is done to figure out where in the
multi-storey building under consideration dampers
should be located. The structure's acceleration at the
centre of mass, storey displacement, and top floor
lateral-torsional displacement are all obtained as
reaction values. In the current investigation, it is found
that the deployment of LVDs and NLVDs greatly reduces
the lateral-torsional response amount.
Keywords: Passive linear viscous dampers (LVDs),
Nonlinear viscous dampers (NLVDs)
2. INTRODUCTION
The two key considerations for seismic design of
building structures are human safety and comfort. Multi-
degree-of-freedom constructions are potentially in
danger from natural disasters like earthquakes and
strong winds. The constructions were severely damaged
by earthquakes that occurred all over the world, such as
the Madhya Pradesh (1996), India. Structural control
mechanisms are a flexible way to protect civil structures
from these natural disasters. Numerous structural
control techniques have been created during the past
couple of decades, and there are some useful
applications. For earthquake-excited high elevated
buildings, One form of hybrid control system was
created by Schlacher [16] et al. in 1997 and comprises of
a basic isolation and an additional active damper. The
structure is represented mechanically as a shear wall
structure with non-linear stress-strain regulating
factors. Despite the havoc that earthquakes may do to a
group's life and property. There are various
advanced seismic vibration control measures that can
assist to decrease the effects of earthquakes, such as
reducing building height, elevating building foundations,
and employing dampers and springs. In order to
decrease the impact of earthquakes on both building and
non-building structures a collection of technological
instruments known as seismic vibration management
has been created. The four types of seismic vibration
control systems are passive, active, semi-active, and
hybrid systems. They accomplish the following goals:
 To use appropriately constructed dampers to diffuse
wave energy within superstructure.
 To disseminate wave energy across a wider range of
frequencies.
 To use mass dampers to decrease the resonant
portions of the full wave frequency spectrum.
One of the fundamental issues facing construction
professionals is the stability of structures under dynamic
lateral stresses, such as quakes, storms, explosions.
Employing control devices, considerable efforts are
being made to improve the dynamic efficiency of
buildings. Even if a high-rise building is not damaged by
an earthquake or strong wind will cause it to swing
uncontrollably which making it challenging to maintain
safety and liveability.
The purpose of the vibration control structure is to
dampen the vibration caused by an earthquake or a
strong wind by connecting a vibration energy absorbing
device to the building. This not only prevents structural
damage but also ensures the safety of the occupants,
safeguards the equipment, and ensures liveability.
Building management may be summed up by the
invention, development and tools for vibration
dampening. Various control mechanisms might be semi-
active, like a magnetorheological damper, active, like
active tuned mass dampers, or passive, like viscous fluid
dampers. The use of vibration control systems as an
alternative to traditional seismic design, which reckon

on the ductile deformation of structural components to
release inelastic energy, has become extensively
accepted.
The kind of structure, site location, and need for ground
stabilisation underneath the structure will all affect the
seismic design.
How seismic design is accomplished by determining the
most likely failure modes of buildings and ensuring that
the structures are given the appropriate strength and
form is contoured in this paper.
Advanced study on actively coupled building systems,
active-tendon systems, semi-active control & semi-active
stiffness dampers were offered by Fisco and Adeli [1]. He
also retrospected on hybrid structural vibration control,
including hybrid mass dampers, semi-active foundation
isolators, actuators with passive dampers, and semi-
tuned liquid column dampers. active with passive
dampers (TLCD) [2]. The successful implementation of
the smart structure technology depends critically on an
effective and accurate algorithm to determine the
intensities of real stresses to be imposed to the
structure.
3. Literature Review
Passive, active, and semi-active control devices are
primarily used in the response control design method.
3.1 Passive Control Systems
Alternative dampers that comprise tuned mass dampers
(TMD), tuned liquid column dampers (TLCD), and base
isolation systems that do not require an outside power
source. But they are only useful for a small variety of
external seismic excitation.
Such devices discharge energy by generating heat, which
eventually lessens This list comprises elastoplastic
dampers that compress, viscous dampers, friction
dampers. Passive devices, which including base isolators,
adjust the structure's free vibration characteristic and
bring it to a lower frequency, where the magnitude of
earthquake excitation is decreased.
3.1.1 Buildings
Fu and Johnson examine the effectiveness of a
distributed mass damper system in a 20-story structure
made up of TMDs on various levels that are vulnerable to
seismic loads [14]. Because there are no large dampers
at the top of the building or anywhere else in the
structure. The authors assert that "the design of this
distributed mass damper (DMD) system is more difficult
for experts but can be less obtrusive in terms of
architectural design. In terms of design procedure, Cho
et al. explore the properties of TMD and TLCD systems
[13]. For field experiments, a steel frame of 50 stories
with TMD system and steel frame of 64 stories having
two TLCDs positioned on the top floor are both
employed.
TMD's performance in a 36-story steel structure when
subjected to typhoon loading. A multi-objective design of
a typical 10-story steel building furnished with Tuned
Mass Dampers during destructive blazes using a genetic
algorithm is illustrated by Pourzeynali et al. [12].
Farshidianfar and Soheili report a similar study on a 40-
story regular building constructed on soft, medium, and
dense soils but using the ant colony optimization method
instead [11].
3.1.2 Bridges
To diminish vibration of a long span suspension bridge
having a steel girder deck and a 106-meter-tall RC tower
that is susceptible to earthquake excitation. An energy
dissipation geared isolation device formed of rubber-like
materials is tested by Guan et al. [10].
A number of tuned mass damper-geared pedestrian
walkways are the subject of a study conducted by Daniel
et al. [9]. The authors assert that splitting each tuned
mass damper into a group of smaller tuned mass
dampers at the same site, each tuned to a slightly
different frequency, will alleviate the famed detuning
problem of TMDs, which is caused by fewer staff
crossing over.
3.2 Active Control Systems
Actuators that regulate external sources require
considerable power sources in active control systems. It
can necessitate 10 kilowatts for buildings and many large
amounts of energy for fostering the development. These
actuators apply predefined pressures to the structure,
enabling energy to be added to or subtracted from it as
necessary. The signals provided to the control actuators
in an active feedback control system depend on how the
system responds to measurements made with actual
physical sensors. Some of the active dampers include
tuned mass dampers, systems with changeable
stiffness, and pulse generators.
3.2.1 Buildings
Dynamic control of multistorey structure utilizing
dynamic ligaments is analysed by Aldemir et al. [8]. They
propose a performance indicator for concurrently
lowering the mechanical energy of the structure and the
control system. On a cantilever arrangement with
fourteen longitudinal sensors and three piezoelectric
actuators, Cazzulani et al. consider active control of
structures employing fibre sensors [7]. In their modified

LQG method, the actuator force is a function of the
control gain matrix and the velocity of the recorded
locations.
During an earthquake, the Active Tuned Mass Dampers
are rendered meaningless and turn into passive TMDs.
The 90th's maximum and root mean square acceleration
responses were found to have decreased by 40% and
45%, correspondingly, under wind loading with a 1-year
return time. Based on their field measurements, the
authors conclude that the Active Tuned Mass
Dampers may be employed to effectively control the
wind-produced vibration of such extremely tall buildings
while limiting adverse impacts under earthquake
loading.
A supervisory fuzzy controller (SFC), which was a hybrid
of a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) and a fuzzy logic
controller (FLC), was employed by Fallah and
Ebrahimnejad [6]. In a steel structure with ten stories
that consists of braced frames in one direction and
moment-resisting frames in the other. Using
piezoelectric actuators positioned on the lower portion
of particular columns, this is exposed to seismographic
movements. For the best actuator positioning, they
adopted a GA. An approach for determining the ideal
control forces in an active tuned mass damper (ATMD)
system is presented by Amini et al. [5]. Particle swarm
optimization (PSO), the discrete wavelet transforms
(DWT), and the linear quadratic regulator are all
combined in it (LQR). The technique has been applied to
a ten-story shear frame structure with an Active Tuned
Mass Damper system mounted to the roof that has
experienced various seismic records. Using a
Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) type controller,
Nigdeli and Boduroglu demonstrate active tendon
control of shear irregular structures under near-fault
ground motion excitation [4].
3.2.2 Bridges
Due to their increasingly more lightweight construction,
researchers are likely interested in minimizing the
vibrations caused by people on footbridges. On a
functioning urban lightweight pedestrian bridge in
Spain, Casado et al. exhibit the design and execution of
Active Tuned Mass Damper and Tuned Mass Damper [3].
With Hz as the control technique, the Active Tuned Mass
Damper comprises of an actuator with a mass ratio of
around 0.2%. They verified the four modes damping
ratios and frequencies using a modal identification
approach. The first vibration mode, which is the most
likely to be triggered by human actions (first bending
mode at 3.5 Hz, well-separated from other modes), has
its control mechanisms improved. They claim that
adopting a Tuned Mass Damper with a mass ratio of 1%
results in vibration reductions spanning from 40 to 80%.
The authors note that while TMD has a minimal initial
investment cost, it requires ongoing maintenance since
the ageing structure's basic period varies with
time. However, "environmental phenomena (namely,
temperature and wind), along with pedestrian density,
as well as the structure's resonance behaviour. A mass
one-sixth that of the equivalent Tuned Mass Damper and
"Vibration reductions between sixty percent and
eighty percent, except for leaping at the structural
natural frequency" restrict Tuned Mass Damper efficacy.
It implies that an Active Tuned Mass Damper has never
before been used in a footbridge that is currently in
operation. The cost of Active Tuned Mass Damper is now
three to four times more than that of the Tuned Mass
Damper system, although it is anticipated that this will
go down over time. The fact that the Active Tuned Mass
Damper does not require routine retuning is a benefit of
this technology.
3.3 Semi-active Control Systems
Coupling active and passive systems develops a
semiactive control system. As a result, the system only
requires a little amount of electricity, frequently in the
tens of watts level. The advantage is that in the case of a
power loss, the control's passive function will still
provide some safeguarding. This kind of damper includes
changeable tuned liquid dampers, mechatro, dampers,
variable friction dampers. Semi-active control systems
have been researched by Symans et al. [15]. The
literature describes hybrid control systems that mix
passive and semiactive devices as well as passive and
active devices.
However, the fundamental drawback of active and
semi-active devices is that they require power, making
them less desirable for controlling seismic reaction.
Power outages are common in strong earthquakes, and
it's possible that there won't be enough power to run
active and semi-active equipment. The many
conventional operating parameters, such as
temperature and pressure, are also managed by a wide
variety of active control devices across a wide range of
sectors. To deal with uncertainty, redundancy is
introduced into the control systems, increasing the
overall number of monitoring systems. As a result, it's
always essential to reduce the number of active and
semi-active systems. Generally speaking, passive
devices and the fail-safe design approach are
advocated. The need of doing a thorough literature
review on passive dampers and discussing each one's
advantages and disadvantages as well as applications
in real structures is thought significant for the
aforementioned reasons. A structural control survey
was carried out by the US Panel on Structural Control
Research. It brought structural control to a useful
historical perspective. The current paper reviews recent

developments in passive response control along with a
few passive device implementations in Japanese
constructions.
4. Future Research work:
The first foreground of current research is the
hybridization of semi-active control of structures with
other control systems. The main challenge of semi-active
and hybrid is complex and requires the integration
of various hardware and software technologies with
structural design, such as smart materials, adaptive
dampers, actuators, sensors, control algorithms and
signal processing. The main challenge of semi-active and
hybrid is complex and requires the integration of various
hardware and software technologies with
structural design, such as smart materials, adaptive
dampers, actuators, sensors, control algorithms and
signal processing.
5. Conclusions
 This study reviews the basic idea and recent
developments and applications of passive
seismic monitoring devices.
 This study reviews the basic idea and recent
developments and applications of seismic
monitoring devices.
 Custom liquid dampers can be used effectively
for structures with frequencies up to 2 Hz. When
adjusting the mass damper, the dimensions of
the partsoperating under strong excitation must
be taken into account.
 It is also difficult to get a perfect fit. Viscoelastic
dampers can be affected by fluid leakage, but
viscoelastic damper performance is affected by
ambient temperature and excitation frequency.
 Friction dampers require a carefully designed
hard friction surface to reduce slippage.
 Structures vibration control is a particularly
active topic of structural engineering study.
Over the past couple of decades, passive control
systems have undergone extensive development
and testing.
 Semi-active structure control and hybridization
of other control systems are current research
achievements.
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 This observation suggests that a variety of
passive technologies can be utilised to reduce
seismic response.
 Since metallic amplifiers slightly increase the
frequency of the structure, care must be taken in
the design to avoid response amplification due
to frequency changes in the peak region of the
response spectrum.
 The problem is complex and requires the integr
ation of various hardware and software
technologies with structural design, including
smart materials, adaptive dampers, actuators,
sensors,control algorithms and signal processing
This is an interesting area for research and
development due to its complexity. Similarly, the
productivity, availability and environmental
friendliness of control systems should be
studied. Sustainable construction can also
be smart. Smart structural technologies
must incorporate sustainable design principles.
This makes it the most interesting industry.

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