Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app9020285
Keywords
vibration control; pounding tuned mass damper; impact damper; PTMD; suspended piping system
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Funding
- Earthquake Emergency Youth Foundation of China Earthquake Administration [CEA_EDEM-2019]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51808092]
- China Scholarship Council
- China Earthquake Administration
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Suspended piping systems often suffer from severe damages when subjected to seismic excitation. Due to the high flexibility of the piping systems, reducing their displacement is important for the prevention of damage during times of disaster. A solution to protecting piping systems during heavy excitation is the use of the emerging pounding tuned mass damper (PTMD) technology. In particular, the single-sided PTMD combines the advantages of the tuned mass damper (TMD) and the impact damper, including the benefits of a simple design and rapid, efficient energy dissipation. In this paper, two single-sided PTMDs (spring steel-type PTMD and simple pendulum-type PTMD) were designed and fabricated. The dampers were tested and compared with the traditional TMD for mitigating free vibration and forced vibration. In the free vibration experiment, both PTMDs suppressed vibrations much faster than the TMD. For the forced vibration test, the frequency response of the piping system was obtained for three conditions: without control, with TMD control, and with PTMD control. These novel results demonstrate that the single-sided PTMD is a cost-effective method for efficiently and passively mitigating the vibration of suspended piping systems. Thus, the single-sided PTMD will be an important tool for increasing the resilience of structures as well as for improving the safety of their occupants.
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