Component Testing of Pressurized Sand Dampers to Assess the Effect of Design Parameters
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Détails bibliographiques
| Auteur(s): |
Konstantinos N. Kalfas
(The University of Texas at Tyler, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Tyler, TX, USA)
Nicos Makris (Southern Methodist University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dallas, TX, USA) |
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| Médium: | papier de conférence | ||||
| Langue(s): | anglais | ||||
| Conférence: | IABSE Congress: Beyond Structural Engineering in a Changing World, San José, Cost Rica, 25-27 Seotember 2024 | ||||
| Publié dans: | IABSE Congress San José 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1282-1289 | ||||
| Nombre total de pages (du PDF): | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/sanjose.2024.1282 | ||||
| Abstrait: |
This study presents results from cyclic testing on various configurations of a recently developed pressurized sand damper (PSD) in which a steel sphere is moving within a cylindrical tube filled with sand that is under pressure. The experimental campaign investigated the effects of the key design parameters of the damper, namely, the effect of the clearance between the moving sphere and the cylindrical tube and the effect of the overall length of the damper to its force output. Component testing at various geometric configurations, pressure levels, stroke amplitudes, and cycling frequencies show that the proposed pressurized sand damper exhibits stable hysteretic cyclic behaviour with increasing pinching at larger strokes. The recorded force–displacement loops when normalized to the strength of the pressurized sand damper confirm that the force output is nearly rate-independent. |
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