Title: Performance-Based Design and Real-Time Large-Scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems (NEES-2008-0648)

Year Of Curation: 2013

Description: Advanced structural damping systems such as magnetorheological (MR) dampers have great potential improve our ability to achieve performance-based structural design (PBD) directed towards seismic resilience. However, developing methods for real-time hybrid (RTH) testing of these systems is essential to enable the validation of these approaches. In this NEESR project, large-scale structural models, controlled with MR devices are being tested at the Lehigh RTMD NEES Equipment Site using RTH techniques. 

Award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1011534

PIs & CoPIs: Shirley Dyke, Anil Agrawal, Richard Christenson, James Ricles, Billie Spencer

Dates: September 01, 2008 - June 22, 2012

Organizations: --

Facilities: Lehigh University, PA, United States,    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States

Sponsor: NSF - 1011534

Keywords: Supplemental damping,Seismic protective system,Damping device,Large-scale validation testing,Structural response/behavior modification

Publications:
"Comparison of 200 KN MR Damper Models for use in Real-time Hybrid Simulation"
"Development of a Large-Scale MR Damper Model for Seismic Hazard Mitigation Assessment of Structures"
"Accommodating MR Damper Dynamics for Control of Large Scale Structural Systems"

• Shirley Dyke, Anil Agrawal, Richard Christenson, James Ricles, Billie Spencer (2017), "Performance-Based Design and Real-Time Large-Scale Testing to Enable Implementation of Advanced Damping Systems (NEES-2008-0648)," https://datacenterhub.org/deedsdv/publications/view/392.