Optimal Arrangement of Energy-Dissipating Members for Seismic Retrofitting of Truss Structures
- 1 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Abstract
Although passive response control design is a popular method, an arrangement methodology for energy-dissipating devices in spatial structures has not been established yet. In this study, optimization techniques are applied to arrangements of energy-dissipating devices in truss tower structures. First, a response prediction rule using the response spectrum and the equivalent linearization method is proposed. Then, a genetic algorithm is applied to select the optimal arrangement of viscoelastic damper devices in truss tower structures. Additionally, the device arrangements determined by empirical design methods are compared with the optimal solutions.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2015.455.464
Copyright: © 2015 Toru Takeuchi, Yusuke Kinouchi, Ryota Matsui and Toshiyuki Ogawa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- 3,912 Views
- 2,544 Downloads
- 6 Citations
Download
Keywords
- Truss Structures
- Response Control
- Arrangement Optimization
- Genetic Algorithm
- Equivalent Linearization Method