Verification of system identification utilizing shaking table tests of a full‐scale 4‐story steel building

This paper verifies the feasibility of the proposed system identification methods by utilizing shaking table tests of a full‐scale four‐story steel building at E‐Defense in Japan. The natural frequencies, damping ratios and modal shapes are evaluated by single‐input‐four‐output ARX models. These modal parameters are prepared to identify the mass, damping and stiffness matrices when the objective structure is modelled as a four degrees of freedom (4DOF) linear shear building in each horizontal direction. The nonlinearity in stiffness is expressed as a Bouc–Wen hysteretic system when it is modelled as a 4DOF nonlinear shear building. The identified hysteretic curves of all stories are compared to the corresponding experimental results. The simple damage detection is implemented using single‐input‐single‐output ARX models, which require only two measurements in each horizontal direction. The modal parameters are equivalent‐linearly evaluated by the recursive Least Squares Method with a forgetting factor. When the structure is damaged, its natural frequencies decrease, and the corresponding damping ratios increase. The fluctuation of the identified modal properties is the indirect information for damage detection of the structure. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

南宁膨胀土非线性剪切应力松弛特性试验

利用四联装等应变直剪仪,对南宁非饱和重塑膨胀土进行一系列室内剪切应力松弛试验,探讨南宁非饱和重塑膨胀土的剪切应力松弛特性,得到诸多有益的结论。试验结果表明,不同初始条件下的剪切应力松弛曲线均属于不完全衰减型,剪切应力逐渐减少并趋于一个稳定值;膨胀土的松弛曲线都可以明显的分成3个阶段：瞬间松弛阶段、衰减松弛阶段、稳定松弛阶段。不同初始条件下不同时刻的剪切应力-应变等时关系曲线都是非线性的曲线,说明南宁膨胀土具有明显的非线性流变特性,是弹、黏、塑性体。膨胀土的含水率越高,或者竖向荷载越小,或者初始应变越大,或者时间越长,则膨胀土的流变特性及其非线性程度就越高。对试验结果的分析,通过改进剪切应力对数与时间对数的线性关系,建立南宁膨胀土在直剪条件下的非线性剪切应力松弛经验方程,能较好地拟合试验结果。非线性经验模型考虑了应变水平对应力松弛的影响,直观地反映出南宁膨胀土的非线性应力松弛特性,更加符合工程实际,可为膨胀土非线性应力松弛问题的计算分析提供理论依据。     

土压力传感器在硬土介质中的非线性响应分析

为掌握土压力传感器置于硬土介质中呈现的非线性响应特性,建立了传感器与土介质的相互作用模型,运用有限元分析了满足匹配误差稳定所需的传感器与土介质的模量比条件。进行了传感器的单体标定和级配碎石土介质标定试验,探讨了传感器非线性响应的主要影响因素。计算与试验表明,目前国内主流的双膜土压力传感器在量测硬土介质中的土压力时,由于模量偏小标定曲线非线性显著;土压力传感器单体标定曲线线性度较高且其模量基本稳定,表明土介质的模量变化是引起标定曲线非线性的主要因素;通过将传感器置于与使用环境相近的土介质中进行标定,并采用非线性修正可明显提高硬土介质中土压力量测的准确性。     

基于反馈线性化的多变量模糊迭代控制器设计

针对一类多变量非线性控制对象的轨迹跟踪问题,设计一种模糊迭代学习控制器,利用模糊控制器动态调节迭代学习律增益矩阵参数,通过反馈线性化算法和信息融合技术降低模糊控制器输入变量维数,实现多变量非线性系统轨迹跟踪控制.结果表明:与固定增益型迭代学习控制器相比,采用模糊迭代学习控制器学习速度提高,控制稳定性改善,两自由度机械臂的轨迹跟踪控制仿真结果也验证模糊迭代学习控制器的优越性.     

修正的Benjamin-Bona-Mahoney方程的精确解

基于齐次平衡法的思想,利用高效的G′G展开法,求解了修正的Benjamin-Bona-Mahoney(BBM)方程。修正的BBM方程是一个同时含有耗散和色散的非线性偏微分方程,求解难度大。利用对方程解的合理假设和G′G展开法可以将其约化为一个复杂的非线性代数方程组,借助数学软件Maple符号运算功能的帮助成功地求解了该非线性代数方程组,从而求得修正的BBM方程的精确解。这些解中包含3组更具有一般性质的精确解,它们分别是双曲函数解、三角函数周期解、有理数解。这些解对于研究方程的物理性质及物理现象有很重要的意义。为了能够更直观地理解这几组行波解,给出了相应的解的数值模拟图。     

增量动力弹塑性分析方法的改进及其应用

本文主要对增量动力弹塑性分析(IDA)方法的两个方面作了改进:(1)以增量动力弹塑性分析方法的基本原理为基础,以快速非线性时程分析(FNA)方法为计算工具,形成快速增量动力弹塑性分析(FIDA)方法。(2)仅以IDA分析结果为基础,建立地震易损性曲线及地震破坏概率计算的离散型式。为了校验本文方法的可行性与有效性,应用增量动力弹塑性分析、模态增量动力弹塑性分析与快速增量动力弹塑性分析计算一个14层筒中筒结构试验模型,比较了用上述三种方法的计算误差与计算效率,比较了传统方法与本文方法计算该模型结构的地震易损性曲线的差别。     

An experimental and numerical investigation on the cyclic response of a portal frame pier belonging to an old reinforced concrete viaduct

This paper deals with the assessment of the seismic response of a portal frame pier belonging to an old reinforced concrete viaduct. A series of tests, consisting of cyclically imposed displacements, were carried out on three 1:4 scale mock‐ups. The objective of the experimental campaign is twofold: (1) identification and evaluation of the local failure mechanisms and (2) calibration of a numerical model including all observed nonlinear phenomena. The experimental results show that the shear strength of the transverse beam and of the beam–column joints characterizes the post‐elastic behavior of the piers. Other phenomena, like bond‐slip and buckling of the longitudinal bars of the columns, typical of old reinforced concrete structures have also been observed. Finally, a numerical model, built in OpenSEES, was calibrated to reproduce in a satisfactory way the experimental results and to provide a reliable tool for the evaluation of the seismic response of the pier. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Identification of the hysteretic behaviour of a partial‐strength steel–concrete moment‐resisting frame structure subject to pseudodynamic tests

In low‐rise steel‐concrete composite structures, moment‐resisting frames can be designed to develop a ductile response in beam‐to‐column joints and column bases by activating flexural yielding of beams and end plates, shear yielding of column web panel zones and yielding of anchors. To evaluate the performance of these components under differing earthquake intensities, a series of pseudodynamic, quasistatic cyclic and vibration tests were carried out on a two‐storey two‐bay moment resisting structure. The performance‐based seismic design and control of these structures requires that stiffness degradation, strength deterioration and slip are properly modelled. In this context, compact hysteretic models can play a key role and must therefore be striven for. Nonetheless, relevant techniques, like nonlinear system identification, are far from representing standard and reliable tools for the dynamic characterization of full‐scale structural systems. With this objective in mind, we present a restoring force surface‐based technique applied to pseudodynamic test data, in view of the nonlinear identification of multistorey frames. The technique is developed by means of a parametric approach, where a time‐variant stiffness operator is coupled to a modified Bouc–Wen model that allows both for slip and for degradation in stiffness. Strength deterioration is indirectly taken into account too. We also show how model‐based parameters can be correlated to the damage process progressively observed both in the structure and in its components. Finally, the predictive capabilities of the identified model are highlighted. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Structural performance of a base-isolated reinforced concrete building subjected to seismic pounding

The effects of seismic pounding on the structural performance of a base-isolated reinforced concrete (RC) building are investigated, with a view to evaluate the influence of adjacent structures and separation between structures on the pounding response. In particular, seismic pounding of a typical four-story base-isolated RC building with retaining walls at the base and with a four-story fixed-base RC building is studied. Three-dimensional finite element analyses are carried out considering material and geometric nonlinearities. The structural performance of the base-isolated building is evaluated considering various earthquake excitations. It is found that the performance of the base-isolated building is substantially influenced by the pounding. The investigated base-isolated building shows good resistance against shear failure and the predominant mode of failure due to pounding is flexural. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Extraction of internal wave amplitude from nautical X-Band radar observations

One of the most important parameters for oceanic internal waves (IWs) is their amplitude. We have developed a method to retrieve the IW amplitude from nautical X-Band radar images based on the KdV equation for continuous stratified finite depth system. We have also tested the method of measuring the amplitude of IWs from X-Band radar backscatter image sequences acquired on June 2009 in the northeastern South China Sea. The method was applied in several radar images. Experiments show that the retrieval amplitudes are consistent with the in-situ observational amplitudes of IWs by using the towed thermistor chain and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profile. The uncertainty of the method is also discussed.