This paper probes the effects of the Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) device on the response of a 40-story building including three types of soils and experiencing 16 far-field earthquakes. The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) method is employed to obtain the best settings for TMD values and the objective is reducing the maximum drift of the structure considering soil structure interaction (SSI) effects. The TMD effects on the displacement and acceleration response of the structure as well as its influence on the drift response are studied. Moreover, the frequency analyses of the drift responses in addition to the story locations with the highest drifts are also investigated. It is shown that the optimized design results in considerable reduction in drifts enhancing the profits of utilizing the TMD device.
This paper investigates the optimized parameters of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) for vibration control of high-rise structures including Soil Structure Interaction (SSI). The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method is employed for optimization. The TMD Mass, damping coefficient and spring stiffness are assumed as the design variables of the controller; and the objective is set as the reduction of both the maximum displacement and acceleration of the building. The time domain analysis based on Newmark method is employed to obtain the displacement, velocity and acceleration of different stories and TMD in response to 6 types of far field earthquakes. The optimized mass, frequency and damping ratio are then formulated for different soil types; and employed for the design of TMD for the 40 and 15 story buildings and 10 different earthquakes, and well results are achieved. This study leads the researchers to the better understanding and designing of TMDs as passive controllers for the mitigation of earthquake oscillations.
This paper investigates the optimized parameters of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) for highrise structures considering Soil Structure Interaction (SSI) effects. Three optimization methods, namely the ant colony optimization (ACO) technique together with artificial bee colony (ABC) and shuffled complex evolution (SCE) methods are utilized for the optimization of TMD Mass, damping coefficient and spring stiffness as the design variables. The objective is to decrease the maximum displacement of structure. The 40 story structure with three soil types is employed to design TMD for six types of far field earthquakes. The results are then utilized to obtain relations for the optimized TMD parameters with SSI effects. The relations are then applied to design TMD for the same structure with another five types of far field oscillations, and reasonable results are achieved. For further investigations, the obtained relations are utilized to design TMD for a new structure, and the reduction values are obtained for five types of earthquakes, which show acceptable results. This study improves the understanding of earthquake oscillations, and helps the designers to achieve the optimized TMD for high-rise buildings.
In this paper, the flexural vibration of uniform and non-uniform rotating shafts based on the Timoshenko beam theory is investigated. Considering shear deformation and gyroscopic effects to build an exact framework of a solution, the fourth-order differential equation of vibration is solved by an analytical method. The overall transfer matrix of the system formed by a series of flexible distributed in addition to lumped elements is achieved. The results obtained by the distributed lumped modeling technique (DLMT) are verified with other techniques. The damped frequencies obtained by the hybrid modeling method for a multistep gas turbine rotor system using the Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam theories are compared with the results of the transfer matrix method (TMM). It is shown that the presented method provides highly accurate results, while with no compromise, it can be simply and effectively employed for complex systems. It is also shown how the Hooke and Jeeves and the ant colony optimization (ACO) besides the direct enumeration method can be applied to obtain the damped natural frequencies of complicated vibrational systems such as the gas turbine rotors. The comparison between the frequency and damping ratio values obtained by the optimization and direct enumeration methods shows less than 1% error for different cases.
In this paper, an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) method is applied to the problem of scheduling a single machine with sequence-dependent setup times. The objective is to minimize weighted tardiness of all jobs. Three sets of randomly generated problems of different sizes are solved with the proposed solution technique. To examine the performance of ACO algorithm, the same problems have been also solved using Tabu Search (TS) method. It is shown that a well-tuned ACO, with proper definition of heuristic function, can outperform TS in terms of solution quality while taking considerably longer CPU time.
This paper investigates the optimized parameters for the tuned liquid column dampers to decrease the earthquake vibrations of high-rise buildings. Considering soil effects, the soilstructure interaction (SSI) is involved in this model. The Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) is also utilized on the roof of the building. Since the TLCD is a nonlinear device, the time domain analysis based on nonlinear Newmark method is employed to obtain the displacement, velocity and acceleration of different stories and TLCD. To illustrate the results, Kobe earthquake data is applied to the model. In order to obtain the best settings for TLCD, different parameters of TLCD are examined with constant mass quantity. The effective length, head loss coefficient, cross sectional ratio and length ratio of TLCD are assumed as the design variables. The objective is to reduce the maximum absolute and Root Mean Square (RMS) values of displacement and acceleration during earthquake vibration. The results show that the TLCDs are very effective and beneficial devices for decreasing the oscillations of high-rise buildings. It is indicated that the soil type highly affects the suitable parameters of TLCD subjected to the earthquake oscillations. This study helps the researchers to the better understanding of earthquake vibration of the structures including soil effects, and leads the designers to achieve the optimized TLCD for the high-rise buildings.
This paper investigates the optimized parameters of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) for vibration control of high-rise structures including Soil Structure Interaction (SSI). The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method is employed for optimization. The TMD Mass, damping coefficient and spring stiffness are assumed as the design variables of the controller; and the objective is set as the reduction of both the maximum displacement and acceleration of the building. The time domain analysis based on Newmark method is employed to obtain the displacement, velocity and acceleration of different stories and TMD in response to 6 types of far field earthquakes. The optimized mass, frequency and damping ratio are then formulated for different soil types; and employed for the design of TMD for the 40 and 15 story buildings and 10 different earthquakes, and well results are achieved. This study leads the researchers to the better understanding and designing of TMDs as passive controllers for the mitigation of earthquake oscillations.
This paper investigates the optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) for high-rise buildings. The model is assumed as a 40 story building with 160m height considering the translation and rotation of foundation. The Soil Structure Interaction (SSI) is considered for the better prediction of building's response. To illustrate the results, Bam earthquake data is applied to the model. The three soil types, i.e. soft, medium and dense soil are utilized, and the results are compared with the fixed based model. The model is based on time domain analysis, and Newmark method is used to obtain the displacement, velocity and acceleration of different elements. The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), a heuristic method based on the behavior of bees forage for food, is employed to obtain the best parameters for TMD device. The design variables are assumed as mass, damping and spring stiffness quantity. The objective is to decrease both the maximum displacement and acceleration of the building. The results show that the presented model can be effectively applied to evaluate the response of high-rise buildings including SSI effects. It is indicated that the results obtained by this model is more accurate than the results of fixed based model. The effects of TMD on the oscillations of structures including different soil characteristics are also investigated. It is shown that the TMD is more effective for soft soil foundations. It is also shown that how the bee colony optimization technique can be employed to design the optimum TMD for the minimum displacement and acceleration. This study leads the researchers to the better understanding of earthquake oscillations of the high-rise buildings, and helps the designers to achieve the optimized TMD for the structures.