Experimental Implementation of a Building Structure with a Tuned Liquid Column Damper Based on the Real-Time Hybrid Testing Method

摘要

In this study, the real-time hybrid test using a shaking table for the control performance evaluation of a U-shaped tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) controlling the response of earthquake-excited building structure is experiment-tally implemented. In the test, the building structure is used as a numerical part, on which a U-shaped TLCD adopted as an experimental part was installed to reduce its response. At first, the force that is acting between a TLCD and building structure is measured from the load cell attached on shaking table and is fed-back to the computer to control the motion of shaking table. Then, the shaking table is driven such a manner that the error between the interface acceleration computed from the numerical building structure under the excitations of earthquake and the fed-back interface force and that measured from the shaking table. The control efficiency of the TLCD used in this paper is experimentally confirmed by implementing this process of shaking table experiment on real-time.