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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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REAL-TIME DYNAMIC HYBRID TESTING OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMSAndrei REINHORN 1 , Mettupalayam V. SIVASELVAN 2 , Zach LIANG 2 andXiaoyun SHAO 3ABSTRACTThe development and implementation <strong>of</strong> a novel structural testing method involving thecombined use <strong>of</strong> shake tables, actuators, and computational engines for the seismic simulation<strong>of</strong> structures is presented herein. The hybrid simulation is intended to discover throughphysical testing the behavior <strong>of</strong> parts or whole substructure assemblies for which knowledge islimited, while the known parts <strong>of</strong> the structural system can be simulated analytically. Theresult <strong>of</strong> the hybrid simulation provides information <strong>of</strong> the entire system without need forwhole system testing. The structure to be simulated is divided into one, or more, experimentaland computational substructures. The interface forces between the experimental andcomputational substructures are imposed by actuators and resulting displacements andvelocities are fed back to the computational engine. The earthquake ground motion is appliedto the experimental substructures by shake tables. The unique aspect <strong>of</strong> the above hybridsystem is force-based substructuring. The hybrid simulation can be implemented as pseudodynamicor real time dynamic methods. While the former has a long history <strong>of</strong> applications,while the latter was developed recently owing to the availability <strong>of</strong> newest technologies andinvestments done by the George E Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations.Keywords: Hybrid testing; Dynamics; Experimentation; Analysis, Control.1. INTRODUCTIONSimulation <strong>of</strong> structures under seismic loads is usually performed eitherexperimentally or computationally. Experimental results are used to develop andcalibrate computational models <strong>of</strong> structural components and assemblies. Thesecomputational models are used to predict the response <strong>of</strong> structures. Furtherexperiments are then performed to validate and refine the computational models.Structural simulation is thus an iterative process involving alternate stages <strong>of</strong>experimentation and computation.1 Clifford C. Furnas Pr<strong>of</strong>essor2 Project Engineer, G. E. Brown Network for Earthq. Eng. Simulation (NEES),3 Ph.D. Candidate,Dept. <strong>of</strong> Civil, Structural and Environmental Eng. <strong>University</strong> at Buffalo259

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