Experimental Study on Vertical Base-Isolated System with Disk Spring

Abstract:

A new vertical isolator designed by disk spring, called combined disk spring bearing (DSB), is introduced in this paper. DSB is composed of one main disk spring bearing and eight secondary disk spring bearings. Performance tests show that DSB had good property of variable vertical stiffness and high vertical damping. Then, the effectiveness of DSB vertical base-isolated devices in reducing structural responses caused by earthquakes through a series of 1/2 scale shaking table tests. are conducted to study the seismic responses of the and the DSB vertical-isolated system. Compared with the fixed-base system, experimental results show that the DSB vertical-isolated system can isolate vertical earthquake energy remarkably. Large displacement of the DSB vertical-isolated system occurred on the isolation layer, and the inter-story deformation of the superstructure changed slightly. The acceleration responses of DSB vertical-isolated system decreased more than 50% and the displacement responses decreased more than 40% at 0.4g PGA, which confirmed that DSB could decrease the seismic responses effectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 166-169)
• Pages: 788-792
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.166-169.788
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Yamin Zhao*, Jingyu Su, Ming Lu
• Keywords: Disk Spring, Experimental Study, Vertical Isolation

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