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Dynamic load simulator / Swaroop K. Yalla in Journal of engineering mechanics, Vol. 133 N°8 (Août 2007) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 133 N°8 (Août 2007) . - pp.855–863. Titre : Dynamic load simulator : actuation strategies and applications Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Swaroop K. Yalla, Auteur ; Ahsan Kareem, Auteur Année de publication : 2007 Article en page(s) : pp.855–863. Note générale : Applied mechanics Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Dynamic  loads  Simulation  Feedback  control  Structural  control Résumé : The development of a multiple-actuator dynamic load simulator (DLS), for the simulation of correlated dynamic loads on small-scale structural components and substructures, or on bench-scale system assemblage is presented in this paper. Conceptually, the DLS employs actuators to simulate a desired dynamic loading environment due to wind, waves, or earthquakes, which in special cases may serve as a replacement for conventional facilities such as wind tunnels, wave tanks and shaking tables. The actuation strategy of the DLS is based on force-control rather than the customary motion control (displacement/velocity) scheme. The load simulator is ideal for structural components and for systems that can be idealized as lumped mass systems. An actuation strategy for the DLS based on an innovative scheme that utilizes the coupled control system is developed. For implementation of this scheme, the nonlinear control system toolbox in MATLAB is used. In this scheme, the tuning of control parameters in the time domain is carried out by solving a constrained optimization problem. A suite of loading protocols that includes sinusoidal, two-point correlated fluctuations in wind loading, earthquake induced loading and loads characterized by strong non-Gaussian features is simulated by employing the control scheme introduced here. The load simulation examples presented here demonstrate that the loading time histories generated by utilizing the DLS matched the target values with high fidelity. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9399%282007%29133%3A8%2885 [...] [article] Dynamic load simulator : actuation strategies and applications [texte imprimé] / Swaroop K. Yalla, Auteur ; Ahsan Kareem, Auteur . - 2007 . - pp.855–863. Applied mechanics Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 133 N°8 (Août 2007) . - pp.855–863. Mots-clés : Dynamic  loads  Simulation  Feedback  control  Structural  control Résumé : The development of a multiple-actuator dynamic load simulator (DLS), for the simulation of correlated dynamic loads on small-scale structural components and substructures, or on bench-scale system assemblage is presented in this paper. Conceptually, the DLS employs actuators to simulate a desired dynamic loading environment due to wind, waves, or earthquakes, which in special cases may serve as a replacement for conventional facilities such as wind tunnels, wave tanks and shaking tables. The actuation strategy of the DLS is based on force-control rather than the customary motion control (displacement/velocity) scheme. The load simulator is ideal for structural components and for systems that can be idealized as lumped mass systems. An actuation strategy for the DLS based on an innovative scheme that utilizes the coupled control system is developed. For implementation of this scheme, the nonlinear control system toolbox in MATLAB is used. In this scheme, the tuning of control parameters in the time domain is carried out by solving a constrained optimization problem. A suite of loading protocols that includes sinusoidal, two-point correlated fluctuations in wind loading, earthquake induced loading and loads characterized by strong non-Gaussian features is simulated by employing the control scheme introduced here. The load simulation examples presented here demonstrate that the loading time histories generated by utilizing the DLS matched the target values with high fidelity. ISSN : 0733-9399 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9399%282007%29133%3A8%2885 [...]