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Earthquakes and Structures Volume 17, Number 2, August 2019 , pages 131-141 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/eas.2019.17.2.131 |
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Reliability assessment of semi-active control of structures with MR damper |
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Ali Hadidi, Bahman Farahmand Azar and Sina Shirgir
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| Abstract | ||
| Structural control systems have uncertainties in their structural parameters and control devices which by using reliability analysis, uncertainty can be modeled. In this paper, reliability of controlled structures equipped with semi-active Magneto-Rheological (MR) dampers is investigated. For this purpose, at first, the effect of the structural parameters and damper parameters on the reliability of the seismic responses are evaluated. Then, the reliability of MR damper force is considered for expected levels of performance. For sensitivity analysis of the parameters exist in Bouc- Wen model for predicting the damper force, the importance vector is utilized. The improved first-order reliability method (FORM), is used to reliability analysis. As a case study, an 11-story shear building equipped with 3 MR dampers is selected and numerically obtained experimental data of a 1000 kN MR damper is assumed to study the reliability of the MR damper performance for expected levels. The results show that the standard deviation of random variables affects structural reliability as an uncertainty factor. Thus, the effect of uncertainty existed in the structural model parameters on the reliability of the structure is more than the uncertainty in the damper parameters. Also, the reliability analysis of the MR damper performance show that to achieve the highest levels of nominal capacity of the damper, the probability of failure is greatly increased. Furthermore, by using sensitivity analysis, the Bouc-Wen model parameters which have great importance in predicting damper force can be identified. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| semi-active control; reliability analysis; uncertainty; MR damper | ||
| Address | ||
| Ali Hadidi, Bahman Farahmand Azar and Sina Shirgir: Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran | ||