Probabilistic Control for the Active Mass Driver Benchmark Structural Model

B. Scott May (Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology)
James L. Beck (Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology)

paper (PDF, 386KB); abstract

Active Mass Driver (AMD) Results

	control1		control2		control3		control4
	design earthquake: w_g = 50 rads/sec, z_g = 0.5, magnitude scale 1		design earthquake: probabilistic description		design earthquake: w_g = 50 rads/sec, z_g = 0.5, magnitude scale 1		design earthquake: probabilistic description
	robustness cut-off: 30 Hz		robustness cut-off: 30 Hz		robustness cut-off: probabilistical description		robustness cut-off: probabilistical description
J1	0.314523		0.208188		0.291961		0.206987
J2	0.509560		0.344778		0.472860		0.345296
J3	0.600629		0.840591		0.664091		0.850715
J4	0.598120		0.823246		0.659166		0.831843
J5	0.966875		0.675518		0.995680		0.683428
J6	0.423214	0.482795	0.346847	0.380189	0.400775	0.467344	0.345059	0.379554
J7	0.687237	0.784876	0.535982	0.686813	0.670610	0.733165	0.534654	0.684257
J8	0.659012	0.728764	1.323684	1.617682	0.772019	0.857741	1.340808	1.643479
J9	0.633720	0.755432	1.186314	1.524295	0.722126	0.894644	1.200263	1.557845
J10	1.239100	1.224768	0.836009	0.927601	1.298196	1.307824	0.859423	0.935838
uRMS	0.153234		0.291610		0.175972		0.295643
amRMS	1.730707		1.209177		1.782267		1.223335
xmRMS	0.786824		1.101174		0.869959		1.114437
uMAX	0.512416	0.307281	1.247198	0.747555	0.616444	0.364286	1.260504	0.757568
amMAX	*6.257455*	3.159901	4.221846	2.393211	*6.555889*	3.374185	4.340086	2.414463
xmMAX	2.220870	1.209748	4.460816	2.685352	2.601705	1.423850	4.518524	2.728175
	ElCentro	Hachinohe	ElCentro	Hachinohe	ElCentro	Hachinohe	ElCentro	Hachinohe

Numbers in this face represent violated constraints.
Numbers in this face are the larger of the ElCentro/Hachinohe values.

The Kanai-Tajimi results were performed using w_g =37.3 rads/sec, z_g =0.3, T_f =300 secs.

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