Semi-active control of a cable-stayed bridge under multiple-support excitations
Semi-active control of a cable-stayed bridge under multiple-support excitations作者机构:School of Civil Engineering and Mechanics Shanghai Jiaotong University
出 版 物:《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报(英文版)A辑(应用物理与工程))
年 卷 期:2004年第5卷第3期
页 面:68-76页
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学科分类:081406[工学-桥梁与隧道工程] 08[工学] 0814[工学-土木工程] 082301[工学-道路与铁道工程] 0823[工学-交通运输工程]
主 题:Cable-stayed bridge Multiple-support excitation MR damping Semi-active control
摘 要:This paper presents a semi-active strategy for seismic protection of a benchmark cable-stayed bridge with consideration of multiple-support excitations. In this control strategy, Magnetorheological (MR) dampers are proposed as control devices, a LQG-clipped-optimal control algorithm is employed. An active control strategy, shown in previous researches to perform well at controlling the benchmark bridge when uniform earthquake motion was assumed, is also used in this study to control this benchmark bridge with consideration of multiple-support excitations. The performance of active control system is compared to that of the presented semi-active control strategy. Because the MR fluid damper is a con-trollable energy- dissipation device that cannot add mechanical energy to the structural system, the proposed control strategy is fail-safe in that bounded-input, bounded-output stability of the controlled structure is guaranteed. The numerical results demonstrated that the performance of the presented control design is nearly the same as that of the active control system; and that the MR dampers can effectively be used to control seismically excited cable-stayed bridges with multiple-support excitations.