Seismic Performance and Failure Process of Long-Span Bridge With High Piers

Based on OpenSEES platform, elastic-plastic structural model of long-span bridge with high piers is established. This paper utilizes time-history analysis method to analyze seismic responses of bridge under consistent or multi-support seismic excitation. Seismic performances and failure process for bridge with high piers are studied. Analysis results show that characteristics of seismic excitation and the way of excitation input have some effect on failure sequence and the occurrence or location of plastic hinge for bridge piers. The failure mode for high piers assumes bending failure, and the failure for top of pier is frequently prior to that of pier bottom, which should be paid enough attention.     

Simulation of ice shedding on transmission lines considering ice shedding velocity effect

Ice shedding on transmission lines results in longitudinal unbalanced forces on adjacent transmission towers,which significantly threaten the safety of transmission lines.The methodology of ice shedding simulation on transmission lines is developed by using the finite element method and validated by comparing the simulation results with those obtained from the model scale experiments done by previous researchers.The responses of the tower line system induced by simultaneous ice shedding on the conductor and ground wire are analyzed.The developed methodology is then applied to study ice shedding considering unzipping effect,in which the influence of the velocity of ice shedding on the responses is investigated.Results from this study show that the longitudinal unbalanced forces induced by simultaneous ice shedding from the ground wire are greater than those from the conductor under similar condition.During the analysis of ice shedding considering unzipping effect,the slower the velocity of ice shedding is,the closer the responses are to those resulting from static unloading;and the faster the velocity of ice shedding is,the closer the responses are to those resulting from simultaneous ice shedding.     

Seismic Analysis and Performance Assessment of 3-D FEM of a Factory Building

A whole 3D finite element model of a Large Steel Structural Factory Building is established. Then dynamic characteristics and dynamic responses are calculated by importing the seismic excitation in different three directions to evaluate its earthquake resistance. Compared with the Code for Seismic Design of Buildings, the results show that this factory building meets the requests of seismic fortification intensity 7. All the work is helpful for engineers to design similar buildings.     

刚性连体位置对非对称双塔连体结构动力可靠度的影响

考虑地震动的非平稳性,变化连体位置,对非对称双塔连体结构运用虚拟激励法进行非平稳随机激励下的动力可靠度研究。采用刚度退化的Bouc-Wen模型模拟塔楼各楼层的滞变特性,建立非线性化动力方程。运用混合精细积分法对每一时刻的响应进行求解,得到连体位置变化时非对称连体结构在非平稳随机激励下的时变方差。基于首次超越破坏准则与Markov假定,研究非平稳随机地震激励下连体结构的动力可靠度。运用上述理论,在8度罕遇地震作用下对某非对称双塔连体结构进行随机地震响应与动力可靠度分析。研究结果表明,地震作用下结构的层间位移响应呈现强烈的非平稳性,变化连体位置对连体结构的随机地震响应与动力可靠度将产生显著影响。     

Dynamic Characteristics of Structure-Soil-Structure System for Two Neighbor Buildings

In order to realize the variation of structural dynamic characterics due to neighbor structures in buildings, the surface structure is idealized as an equivalent single degree of freedom system with rigid base whose site consists of a single homogeneous layer. The dynamic characteristics of three-dimensional structure-soil-structure interaction system, including two identical structures, are investigated to identify the additional effects caused by the presence of a second structure. When comparing the data from the soil-structure system with only one structure and the structure-soil-structure system, two close natural frequencies with opposite phase modes are identified. Therefore, the term twin-frequency is proposed. Next, the value of twin-frequency varying with the frequency ratio of structure to soil is discussed. Meanwhile, the relative distance between two structures and the ratio of foundation width to soil thickness are covered. The data will be used to consider the coupling effects of soil on the dynamic characteristics of structure-soil-structure systems. Finally, a numerical case of seismic response of the structure-soil-structure system is calculated under traveling wave excitations. The numerical results indicate that the twin-frequencies cause beatings of the structures as well as ground motion.     

Probabilistic Seismic Damage Analysis of Inelastic Structural System

A novel numerical model for seismic damage analysis of inelastic two degree of freedom (2DOF) system under bi directional excitations was developed by taking the strength degradation, stiffness deterioration and pinching effect into account. The influences of bidirectional excitations, strength degradation, stiffness deterioration and pinching effect on statistical characteristics of seismic damage index of inelastic 2DOF system were investigated using 69 selected earthquake records. The results show that seismic damage index of inelastic 2DOF system can be described as either the Lognormal or the Frechet distribution variable; the seismic damage index of inelastic 2DOF system can be approximated by the square root of sum of square (SRSS) of seismic damage index of single degree of freedom (SDOF) system; an decrease in post yielding stiffness or consideration of strength degradation, stiffness deterioration and pinching effect may increase the seismic damage index remarkably.     

Seismic response of long span arch bridge under spatially variable seismic exicitation

Based on a spatial nonstationary model of seismic ground motion, the seismic acceleration time history are simulated by the wave superposition method. And then taking CaiYuanBa arch bridge in Chongqing as original model , this paper utilizes time history analysis method to analyze the seismic response characteristic of this type of long span arch bridge by support consistent or multi support seismic excitation .The numerical results indicate that the spatial variation of seismic ground motion have significant effect on the response of the arch bridge. Thrust of arch rib and vertical displacement, internal force of arch crown are increased greatly, but most internal forces of stiffener support are reduced.     

Multi-objective dynamic optimization design of high-power wind turbine gearbox

A dynamic model of NGW helical planetary gear transmission for high-power wind turbine gearbox is established by considering these factors as errors of gears and time-varying mesh stiffness by using mass centralized method. Moreover, the random wind velocity is simulated as external seismic excitation making the results more conform to practical condition. And on this basis, this system is optimized for minimum gearbox volume and minimum component torsional acceleration with the restriction of reliability and strength restrain. The result indicates that the optimized parameters make gear transmission lightweight and the dynamic property improved so as to reduing vibration and noised.     

Modeling and simulation of a grid connected wind turbine withdoubly fed induction generator

In order to fully research the effects of external excitations, such as wind speed, wind direction and voltage disturbance, on a grid connected wind turbine with doubly fed induction generator, a co-simulation model of MW-class wind turbine system is established by using Simpack and Matlab/Simulink software. Also, by considering the actual control strategies in the process of simulation, the relationship between external excitations and mechanical system is studied. According to time-domain simulation under the turbulent wind condition, the dynamic meshing forces of gears are analyzed. Besides, the vibration responses of tower are calculated under the different external excitations. Research results lay a foundation for dynamic performance optimization and reliability design of a wind turbine.     

Self Excitation Simulation for Hydro-Synchronous Generators

The capacity,voltage,and length of modern electric power system are increasing ceaselessly.Synchronous generators will cause self excitation with the help of armature reaction,its stator current and voltage will increase.The self excitation conditions and the transient process are two aspects for studying self excitation.Now,self excitation conditions are mathematical formulas under certain postulate.The model of transient process of self excitation is linear.The conditions of self excitation are presented based on simulation,and the results of self excitation effected by the electromagnetic parameters of hydro generators operating extra high voltage long transmission line are simulated,based on a saturation model of hydro generators.The conclusions are very helpful for operation and design of hydro generators.     

Responses of Rubber Bearing Isolation Structure Considering Soil-Structure Dynamic Interaction

By means of the substructure approach in the frequency domain, equations of motion of the rubber - isolated structures are established considering the soil-structure dynamic interaction. The seismic responses of two shear-type base-isolated structures with an embedded rigid rectangular foundation are numerically simulated, and the influences of the different rigidities of soil on the effect of the base isolation and the seismic responses of the structure are investigated. It is concluded that rubber bearing isolation can reduce the dynamic characteristics of structures and reduce displacement of floor and basement relative to ground. Meanwhile, considering the dynamic soil-structure interaction may reduce the isolation effect of the rubber-isolated structures and the effect level is in direct proportion to the stiffness of the superstructure and inverse proportion to the stiffness of foundation soil.     

Operational Bridge Responses due to Road Surface Profile Spectral Excitations

Random spectrum excitation samples of a road surface profile are investigated. The displacements, velocities, accelerations of a vehicle and a bridge structure are discussed using certain samples. The road excitations are numerically simulated by the random phase cosine method of the power spectral density. The vehicle bridge system responses are obtained using the vehicle bridge differential equations for different road surface profiles. It is concluded that the random phase has critical effects on the road surface profile curve shape, and the power spectral density on the curve value. The random samples possesses the same statistical characteristics. The system response values are affected more by the road surface profiles, and the response shapes are affected more as the vehicle velocity varies. Some engineering advice is proposed based on the numerical calculation with the different random excitation inputs for their significant differential responses.     

Transverse Seismic Design and Analysis of an H Type Bridge Tower Cable Stayed Bridge

According to our current bridge seismic design codes, the bridge tower is explicitly required to remain almost elastic even under the excitation of occasionally happened earthquake. To achieve this seismic performance objective, usually the steel ratios of tower base and strut are required to satisfy the static loading demand and increase by a large margin as well in most engineering practices which leads to engineering inefficiency as well as a rising seismic demand for the substructure. Therefore, the structural design parameters including the location, the stiffness and the constrain condition of the strut with respect to the tower column of H shape tower were studied to explore their effect on the transverse seismic responses of cable-stayed bridge tower, Moreover, the effect of yield intensity of the strut on the seismic responses of the tower column is also studied. The results show that the location and the stiffness of the strut have a slight effect on the seismic responses while the transverse seismic demands of the bridge tower decrease drastically when the constrain condition between the cross beam and the tower column changes.     

Response Spectrum Method for Seismic Response Calculation of Pipeline System Multiply Supported on Structures

In order to ensure the function of building in the earthquake, reduce economic losses and facilitate post-disaster relief, it is necessary to accurately evaluate the seismic performance of pipeline system on the structure under seismic excitation. Considering this practical need, seismic response calculation methods of piping systems on structures were systematically studied. Firstly, theoretical derivation was performed based on the pseudo-excitation method for seismic response of pipeline system. It is found that the formula in previous studies has obvious defect: the accurate relative displacement values of degree of freedom near the supports can not be obtained in the formula. Thereby, the theoretical basis for derivation was mended to correct the defect, and the uniform combination expressions available for pipeline's seismic response calculation which is in the form of ground response spectrum or floor response spectrum were presented. Moreover, the simplified formulas and calculation method of correlation coefficients in the obtained expressions were put forward according to the assumption of white noise earthquake excitation. Finally, case studies were adopted to verify the proposed method's effectiveness and applicability in the seismic response calculation of pipeline system.     

风电齿轮箱传动误差分析及振动噪声预估

针对一级行星两级平行轴风电齿轮传动系统,综合考虑齿轮时变啮合刚度、啮合阻尼、传递误差等因素,建立31个自由度的弯扭轴耦合集中参数动力学模型,采用变步长Runge-Kutta法对系统动力学微分方程进行求解,得出齿轮传动系统各级传动误差;借助软件建立风电齿轮箱刚柔耦合动力学模型,并导入传动误差,采用模态叠加法求得齿轮箱轴承支反力,并将其作为声振耦合模型的边界条件,采用声学有限元法对风电齿轮箱进行振动噪声预估,并与试验结果对比分析,两者吻合良好。     

Error Analysis between Relative Motion Solving Method and Absolute Displacement Direct Solving Method

Under multi-support earthquake excitation, the damping is proportional to the relative velocity in relative motion method, While the damping is proportional to the absolute velocity in method of direct solving absolute displacement, and the damping assuming difference may cause the calculation errors on structural responses. The structural response errors of the dynamic component of power spectral density between the two solving methods are derived by random vibration theoretical analysis in Rayleigh damping model, which include damping ratio and the ratio between excitation frequency and fundamental frequency of the structures. Based on probability theory, the variation errors of dynamic component response between the two solving methods are also derived by theoretical analysis, and some numerical examples are provided to verify the error analysis. At last, it is pointed out that the calculation errors between the two solving methods decrease with damping ratio, and it is negligible when the damping ratio of structure is less than 5%.     

Model and Numerical Analysis of Radiation Field Created by Lightning Overvoltage Wave on Transmission Lines

The radiation field created by the transmission line stroked by lightning far from the lightning channel has been analyzed by the FDTD method.The authors we establish the calculation model and FDTD calculation method of transmission line,and discusses the import of lightning excitation source.The simulation of lightning stroked on a single transmission line in free space or stroked on three-phase high voltage transmission lines in actual environments has been done,and gives the distribution of transient radiation field around the transmission lines when lightning overvoltage wave transmits along the transmission line.The simulation result shows that: the effect of the transient radiation field caused by lightning over voltage wave done with environment is obvious,and the high frequency component of transient radiation field may disturb or do harm to the electronic facility or communication facility around the transmission lines.     

Seismic Behavior of a Slope Protected by a Soil Nailing Retaining Wall during an Earthquake

The dynamic elastic plastic finite element method was used to study the seismic performance of a slope protected by a soil nailing retaining wall. On the basis of working in parallel and interaction between loess and a flexible retaining wall, a 3 D nonlinear finite element method (ADINA) also was established. Rational earthquake excitation and damping were discussed for geological engineering. Horizontal and vertical excitations were considered simultaneously in the analyses. A model capable of simulating the nonlinear static and dynamic elastic plastic behavior of soil was used to model the soil, and a bilinear elastic plastic model having hardening behavior was used to model the soil nailing. A friction element was employed to describe the soil structure interaction behavior. Our research focused on the seismic performance of the horizontal and vertical slope deformation, soil nailing axial force, and earth pressure subjected to horizontal and vertical excitations. The results show that the seismic performance of slope protected by soil nailing is good; soil nailing axial force increases after an earthquake; permanent slope displacement occurs during an earthquake; and the peak earth pressure distribution during an earthquake is similar to the earth pressure before the earthquake. These conclusions can provide references for seismic analyses and design in soil nailing engineering.     

An electromagnetic interference design of a high speed image acquisition system on DM642

A novel design is presented to defend against electromagnetic interference (EMI) in a high speed data acquisition system. Problems that affect signal integrity (SI) in high speed image acquisition systems, such as reflection, crosstalk and ground bounce, are deeply analyzed in a manner consistent with transmission line theory. The results can theoretically inform EMI design of important networks, including system power, ground, clocks, high speed wires and decoupling capacitors. Experiments simulating print circuit board(PCB) reflection and EMI on high speed signal wires between DM642 and SDRAM are conducted. The power and ground should be placed separately in different layers. The clock lines passing through holes should be as few as possible. The signal lines should be as close to the same length as possible. The results show that amplitude of the signal overshoot is less than 0.7 V and the EMI amplitude is within the federal communications commission(FCC) standard.     

Analysis of Seismic Dynamic Responses of Tunnel throughFault Zone in High Earthquake Intensity Area

Based on dynamic time history analysis, dynamic response behavior of an un supported tunnel through fault zone which was simulated by interface and solid elements was studied under uniform input earthquake wave excitation. The analyses of response behaviors, including displacement difference, acceleration magnification, and plastic zones and so on, were carried out when earthquake wave excitation was input along transverse, longitudinal and vertical of tunnel respectively. The results show that simulation method for fault zone is effective; the earthquake causes obvious displacement difference at fault zone and surrounding rock contacting part. The maximal displacement difference reaches to 51.8mm under transverse uniform input earthquake wave excitation. And the displacement difference under vertical and longitudinal is only 44.3% and 23.1% of the transverse value, respectively; the acceleration magnification in fault zone is significantly greater than that in surrounding rock. Shear failure zone appears at the fault zone and surrounding rock contacting part, and it is especially prominent under input longitudinal earthquake wave excitation. It is proposed that fault zone has significantly influence on the dynamic performance of tunnel. The fault zone and the transitional zones are the control zones of seismic design when tunnel passes through fault zone, thus, the study on the anti seismic measures should be further strengthened.