Investigation of the Effect of Soil Structure Interaction on the Response of Structures with Viscoelastic Damper under Different Damping

Subject Areas : Analysis of Structure and Earthquake

masoud pourbaba ¹ , saeid javaherzadeh ² , fariba seyyedi mohammadi ³

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Received: 2016-05-25 Accepted : 2016-08-16 Published : 2017-02-20

Keywords: Damping, viscoelastic damper, soil structure, response of structure, dynamic nonlinear time history analysis,

Abstract :

Using additional dampers for reducing input energy of structures is an effective way for dissipating input energy of structures. Including appropriate tools in dissipating the input energy of structures is viscoelastic damper. Generally, according to the structural analysis, the soil under structures is assumed to be rigid and the effect of soil structure interaction has been ignored. However, in reality, this soil is not rigid and the soil beneath the structures changes the dynamic specifications of structures and thus response of it. Structural response and damper performance depend on various components including type of earth movement and soil specifications. In this research, a few two-dimensional special concrete frames were examined. For frame modeling of additional damper, we used Kelvin method and for modeling of soil structure interaction effects with additional damper we used spring and damper equivalent method in the OpenSees app. Studied frames after rehabilitation with damper have been analyzed under dynamic nonlinear time history analysis. This analysis was done in three damping 5%, 10% and 15%. And at the end the results of soil-structure interaction impact with viscoelastic damper under different damping are studied.