An Advanced Analytical Model For High Damping Rubber Bearings英文电子书.pdf

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS Earthquake Engng Struct. Dyn. 2003; 32:1373–1387 (DOI: 10.1002/eqe.278) An advanced analytical model for high damping rubber bearings 1; ∗; † 2 2 2 C. S. Tsai , Tsu-Cheng Chiang , Bo-Jen Chen and Shih-Bin Lin 1Department of Civil Engineering; Feng Chia University; Taichung; Taiwan 2 Graduate Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering; Feng Chia University; Taichung; Taiwan SUMMARY Base-isolation technologies have been developed over the years in attempts to mitigate the eects of earthquakes on structures and potentially vulnerable contents in earthquake prone areas of the world. The high damping rubber bearing (HDRB) is a relatively recent and evolving technology of this kind. The isolator shifts the fundamental period of the base-isolated structure to a value beyond the range of the plentiful energy-containing periods of earthquake motions and supplies signicant damping to dissipate energy caused by motions. Nevertheless, the highly non-linear mechanical behaviour of the HDRB is so complex, especially at large strains, that it is dicult to model it analytically. In this paper, an extensive study of experimental tests for identifying the mechanical characteristics of the HDRB is presented. By modifying the Wen’s model to include the rate-dependent eects, an advanced analytical model in an incremental form for the HDRB is also proposed. A very good agreement between the analytical and experimental results has been obtained. It is illustrated that the proposed mathematical model can predict well th