Seismic spatial effects on dynamic response of long-span bridges in stationary inhomogeneous random fields

The seismic analysis of long-span bridges subjected to multiple ground excitations is an important problem.The conventional response spectrum method neglects the spatial effects of ground motion, and therefore may result in questionable conclusions. The random vibration approach has been regarded as more reliable. Unfortunately, so far,computational difficulties have not yet been satisfactorily resolved. In this paper, an accurate and efficient random vibration approach -- pseudo excitation method (PEM), by which the above difficulties are overcome, is presented. It has been successfully used in the three dimensional seismic analysis of a number of long-span bridges with thousands of degrees of freedom and dozens of supports. The numerical results of a typical bridge show that the seismic spatial effects, particularly the wave passage effect, are sometimes quite important in evaluating the safety of long-span bridges.     

考虑参数不确定性的结构抗震鲁棒H∞控制

基于线性矩阵不等式方法,本文给出了一种新的考虑参数不确定性的鲁棒H∞控制器设计方法,并用于建筑结构的抗震控制。假定结构不确定参数是范数有界的,通过有界实引理,把考虑参数不确定性的鲁棒H∞控制器设计化为具有线性矩阵不等式约束的凸优化问题,进而可以应用内点法等凸优化技术进行求解。以6层建筑结构在Kobe地震动输入和突加Kanai—Tajimi过滤白噪声随机地震激励下的抗震控制为例,进行了数值仿真。数值结果表明,鲁棒H∞控制器具有很强的鲁棒性,无论结构刚度和阻尼是否存在变异,均能实现很好的控制效果。