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Experimental shake table validation of damping behaviour in inerter-based dampers

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Inerter-based-dampers have received substantial interest from the earthquake engineering community in the last two decades. These typically consist of an inerter, a linear spring and a viscous damper arranged into various possible configurations. In this paper, for the first time, experimental results are presented from shake table tests on a scaled three-storey structure with an inerter-based damper included, in order to suppress vibration amplitudes at the resonant frequencies. In particular two types of device are used to demonstrate the differences between using viscous and hysteretic damping in the inerter-based device. The two different types of experimental dampers were manufactured using eddy current dampers and gel damping material. The inerter was manufactured based on a flywheel design. The experimental results were compared with four analytical models tuned to suppress vibrations in the first resonance; namely the tuned-inerter-damper, the tuned-inerter-hysteretic-damper, the tuned-mass-damper-inerter, and the tuned-mass-hysteretic-damper-inerter. These experimental results confirm the observations made from the models that the suppression of higher resonance peaks is significantly different between the viscous and hysteretic damped inerter-based-dampers. Consequently, it is recommended that future studies exploring the performance of inerter-based seismic mitigation systems pay close attention to the damping mechanisms that are prevalent within the structure.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Mr Mathew J Hall and Mr Michael J Dutchman for their help on the design, manufacturing and testing of the inerter, gel and magnetic dampers.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Islamic University of Indonesia, Kampus Terpadu UII, Jalan Kaliurang KM 14.5, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Predaricka Deastra

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin St, S1 3JD, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    David J. Wagg, Neil D. Sims & Robin S. Mills

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The first author is funded by the Indonesia endowment fund for education (LPDP). This research also made use of The Laboratory for Verification and Validation (LVV) which was funded by the EPSRC (Grant Numbers EP/R006768/1 and EP/N010884/1), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the University of Sheffield. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Deastra, P., Wagg, D.J., Sims, N.D. et al. Experimental shake table validation of damping behaviour in inerter-based dampers. Bull Earthquake Eng 21, 1389–1409 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-022-01376-1

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