Towards realistic minimum-cost optimization of viscous fluid dampers for seismic retrofitting

This paper presents an effective approach for achieving minimum cost designs for seismic retrofitting using viscous fluid dampers. A new and realistic retrofitting cost function is formulated and minimized subject to constraints on inter-story drifts at the peripheries of frame structures. The compo...

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Published inBulletin of earthquake engineering Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 971 - 998
Main Authors Pollini, Nicolò, Lavan, Oren, Amir, Oded
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.03.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Civil Engineering
Cost function
Design engineering
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquake dampers
Energy dissipation
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Geophysics/Geodesy
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrogeology
Interpolation
Mathematical models
Nonlinear programming
Optimization
Original Research Paper
Retrofitting
Seismic engineering
Seismology
Structural Geology
Topology
Viscous fluids
Topology optimization
Energy dissipation devices
Viscous dampers
Material interpolation functions
Irregular structures
Seismic retrofitting
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Summary:This paper presents an effective approach for achieving minimum cost designs for seismic retrofitting using viscous fluid dampers. A new and realistic retrofitting cost function is formulated and minimized subject to constraints on inter-story drifts at the peripheries of frame structures. The components of the new cost function are related to both the topology and to the sizes of the dampers. This constitutes an important step forward towards a realistic definition of the optimal retrofitting problem. The optimization problem is first posed and solved as a mixed-integer problem. To improve the efficiency of the solution scheme, the problem is then re-formulated and solved by nonlinear programming using only continuous variables. Material interpolation techniques, that have been successfully applied in topology optimization and in multi-material optimization, play a key role in achieving practical final design solutions with a reasonable computational effort. Promising results attained for 3-D irregular frames are presented and compared with those achieved using genetic algorithms.
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ISSN:1570-761X
1573-1456
DOI:10.1007/s10518-015-9844-9