Papers by Author: Yan Guo Zhou

Abstract: A new kind of Metal Rubber material vibration isolating bearing is developed and the MR bearings with three different height-width ratio are manufactured. The dynamic shear hysteresis properties of the MR bearings are tested. The theoretical dynamic model method is adopted for the comparative analysis. The experimental results shows that with the H-W ratio decrease, the effective shear stiffness and the effective damping capacity of MR vibration isolating bearing will increase, and the total energy dissipation increases greatly. The selection of the H-W ratio of the MR vibration isolating bearing become an important issue in the structural seismic isolation design.

Abstract: Though seismic isolation technology has been applied widely in civil engineering and proved effective, it is not used in large aqueduct. Shaking table test experiment was made on anti-seismic problem of a large aqueduct in South-to-north Water Transfer Project. First, a single span aqueduct model is designed and made. Then, several isolation bearings are designed for experiment. At last, the structure system dynamic responses were presented with isolation bearing mounted and not under different period earthquake loads for different working conditions. The results show that by using isolation bearings, which can play an important role in large aqueduct anti-seismic problem, the structure dynamic response can be reduced effectively.

Abstract: The hysteresis dynamic behavior of metal rubber mathematically modeled with a practical method is studied, and the method of parameter separated identification is presented with details. Parameters of the model are identified with the test data of metal rubber, from which the theoretical loops are reconstructed, and the mechanism of the nonlinear damping behavior of the metal rubber is investigated. The theoretical loops and the experimental one are close to each other with satisfactory accuracy. The result shows that with the simple mathematical form and the satisfactory precision, the mixed damping model can be used effectively in practical engineering. This study provides a practical and effective method in modeling and the parameter identification of the metal rubber isolator.