A phased approach to enable hybrid simulation of complex structures

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摘要 Hybridsimulationhasbeenshowntobeacost-effectiveapproachforassessingtheseismicperformanceofstructures.Inhybridsimulation,criticalpartsofastructurearephysicallytested,whiletheremainingportionsofthesystemareconcurrentlysimulatedcomputationally,typicallyusingafiniteelementmodel.Thiscombinationisrealizedthroughanumericaltime-integrationscheme,whichallowsforinvestigationoffullsystem-levelresponsesofastructureinacost-effectivemanner.However,conductinghybridsimulationofcomplexstructureswithinlarge-scaletestingfacilitiespresentssignificantchallenges.Forexample,thechosenmodelingschememaycreatenumericalinaccuraciesorevenresultinunstablesimulations;thedisplacementandforcecapacityoftheexperimentalsystemcanbeexceeded;andahybridtestmaybeterminatedduetopoorcommunicationbetweenmodules(e.g.,loadingcontrollers,dataacquisitionsystems,simulationcoordinator).Theseproblemscancausethesimulationtostopsuddenly,andinsomecasescanevenresultindamagetotheexperimentalspecimens;theendresultcanbefailureoftheentireexperiment.Thisstudyproposesaphasedapproachtohybridsimulationthatcanvalidateallofthehybridsimulationcomponentsandensuretheintegritylargescalehybridsimulation.Inthisapproach,aseriesofhybridsimulationsemployingnumericalcomponentsandsmall-scaleexperimentalcomponentsareexaminedtoestablishthispreparednessforthelarge-scaleexperiment.Thisvalidationprogramisincorporatedintoanexisting,maturehybridsimulationframework,whichiscurrentlyutilizedintheMulti-AxialFull-ScaleSub-StructuringTestingandSimulation(MUST-SIM)facilityoftheGeorgeE.BrownNetworkforEarthquakeEngineeringSimulation(NEES)equipmentsiteattheUniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign.Ahybridsimulationofafour-spancurvedbridgeispresentedasanexample,inwhichthreepiersareexperimentallycontrolledinatotalof18degreesoffreedom(DOFs).Thi
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出版日期 2014年04月02日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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