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On the seismic performances of rigid block‐like structures coupled with an oscillating mass working as a TMD
Authors:Giorgia Simoneschi,Alessandro Geniola,Andrea M. de   Leo,Angelo Di   Egidio
Affiliation:Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile‐Architettura e Ambientale, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Abstract:In this paper, the effects of a mass damper on the rocking motion of a non‐symmetric rigid block‐like structure, subject to different seismic excitation, are investigated. The damper is modelled as a single degree of freedom oscillating mass, running at the top of the block and connected to it by a linear visco‐elastic device. The equations of rocking motion, the uplift and the impact conditions are derived. A nondimensionalisation of the governing equations is performed with the aim to obtain an extensive parametric analysis. The results are achieved by numerical integration of these equations. The slenderness and the base of the rigid block, and the eccentricity of the centre of mass are taken as variable parameters in the analyses. The main objective of the study is to check the performance of the damper versus the spectral characteristics of the seismic input. Three earthquake registrations with different frequency contents are used in the analyses. The results show that the presence of the mass damper leads to different levels of improvement of the response of the system, depending on the spectral characteristics of the seismic input. Curves providing the overturning slenderness of blocks of specific sizes versus the characteristics of the TMD are obtained. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords:non‐symmetric rigid block  oscillating mass damper  TMD  seismic excitation  overturning
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