Passive Structural Control (I)- Spring 2013
Credit Hour: 3 Course I.D.: 521 EM 6480
Class schedule: Wednesday 2:20pm – 5:00pm (one break) Classroom: 土研402
Instructor: K.C. Chang (土研503, NCREE 201, e-mail:ciekuo@ntu.edu.tw)
Course Description: To introduce the basic concepts and theories of passive energy dissipation and seismic isolation for structural applications, and discuss current research, development, design and code-related activities in this field.
Objective: To make students understand the concepts and theories of passive damping and seismic isolated structures, and learn how to analyze and design of these structures.
Course Contents and Schedule
(1) Overview & Touring NCERB (2/20)
(2) A brief review of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering (2/27, 3/6) (structural dynamics, response spectrum)
(3) Dynamics of structures with passive energy dissipation systems (3/6, 3/13) (damping models, energy principle, effective of damping ratio)
(4) Viscoelastic dampers (3/20, 3/27)
(5) Viscous damper (Project 1 assigned) (3/27, 4/10)
(6) Seismic design of structures with passive energy dissipaters (4/17, 4/24)
(7) Project presentation (I) (5/1)
(8) Theories of seismic isolation (5/8)
(9) Isolator devices and systems (5/15)
(10) Seismic isolation codes for buildings (5/22)
(11) Seismic isolation design of buildings and bearings (5/29)
(12) Tuned mass dampers (optional) (6/5)
(13) Final exam (6/19)
(14) project presentation (II) (6/26)