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Earthquakes and Structures Volume 11, Number 6, December 2016 , pages 943-966 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2016.11.6.943 |
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Magnetorheological elastomer base isolator for earthquake response mitigation on building structures: modeling and second-order sliding mode control |
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Yang Yu, Sayed Royel, Jianchun Li, Yancheng Li and Quang Ha
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| Abstract | ||
| Recently, magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) material and its devices have been developed and attracted a good deal of attention for their potentials in vibration control. Among them, a highly adaptive base isolator based on MRE was designed, fabricated and tested for real-time adaptive control of base isolated structures against a suite of earthquakes. To perfectly take advantage of this new device, an accurate and robust model should be built to characterize its nonlinearity and hysteresis for its application in structural control. This paper first proposes a novel hysteresis model, in which a nonlinear hyperbolic sine function spring is used to portray the strain stiffening phenomenon and a Voigt component is incorporated in parallel to describe the solid-material behaviours. Then the fruit fly optimization algorithm (FFOA) is employed for model parameter identification using testing data of shear force, displacement and velocity obtained from different loading conditions. The relationships between model parameters and applied current are also explored to obtain a current-dependent generalized model for the control application. Based on the proposed model of MRE base isolator, a second-order sliding mode controller is designed and applied to the device to provide a real-time feedback control of smart structures. The performance of the proposed technique is evaluated in simulation through utilizing a three-storey benchmark building model under four benchmark earthquake excitations. The results verify the effectiveness of the proposed current-dependent model and corresponding controller for semi-active control of MRE base isolator incorporated smart structures. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) base isolator; earthquake mitigation; sliding mode control | ||
| Address | ||
| Yang Yu, Jianchun Li, Yancheng Li: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia Sayed Royel, Quang Ha: School of Electrical Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia | ||