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Earthquake Protection of Existing Structures with Limited Seismic Joint: Base Isolation with Supplemental Damping versus Rotational Inertia

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De Domenico, Dario, Ricciardi, Giuseppe·2018·Advances in Civil Engineering
DOI 10.1155/2018/6019495
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Existing civil engineering structures having strategic importance, such as hospitals, fire stations, and power plants, often do not comply with seismic standards in force today, as they were designed and built based on past structural guidelines. On the other hand, due to their special importance, structural integrity of such buildings is of vital importance during and after earthquakes, which puts demands on strategies for their seismic protection. In this regard, seismic base isolation has been widely employed; however, the existing limited seismic joint between adjacent buildings may hamper this application because of the large displacements concentrated at the isolation floor. In this paper, we compare two possible remedies: the former is to provide supplemental damping in conventional base isolation systems and the latter consists in a combination of base isolation with supplemental rotational inertia. For the second strategy, a mechanical device, called inerter, is arranged in series with spring and dashpot elements to form the so‐called tuned‐mass‐damper‐inerter (TMDI) directly connected to an isolation floor. Several advantages of this second system as compared to the first one are outlined, especially with regard to the limitation of floor accelerations and interstory drifts, which may be an issue for nonstructural elements and equipment, in addition to disturbing occupants. Once the optimal design of the TMDI is established, possible implementation of this system into existing structures is discussed.

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  • TMDI has been applied in the fields of wind and seismic resistance in building structures.

    “TMDI has been applied in the fields of wind and seismic resistance in building structures [17].”

    From Optimization Analysis of Vibration Reduction for Large‐Span Steel Pedestrian Bridges Based on Tuned Mass Damper Inerter System (2025) · cites this paper as [17]

    The Abstract and §5.3 describe a TMDI strategy for protecting buildings from earthquakes and report its modeled effectiveness. They do not support the wind-resistance part of the claim; §7.1 also says that no practical implementation of the studied BIS + TMDI strategy in real structures was available. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
De Domenico, D., & Ricciardi, G.
Affiliations
University of Messina (IT)
ORCID
Venue
Advances in Civil Engineering
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-01
Volume
2018
Issue
1
ISSN
  • 1687-8086 (ISSN-L)
  • 1687-8094
DOI
10.1155/2018/6019495
OpenAlex
W2792553597
Cited by
14
References
68
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2
FWCI
1.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Advances in Civil Engineering (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • INFM-OAR (INFN Catania) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (2015TTJN95, 2015JW9NJT)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Seismic Performance and Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures
Keywords
seismic isolation, supplemental damping, rotary inertia, inerter, tuned mass damper inerter, existing structures, inter-story drift, floor acceleration, non-structural components, critical facilities, retrofitting

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