Effect of bulk compressibility on the stiffness of cylindrical base isolation bearings
Effect of bulk compressibility on the stiffness of cylindrical base isolation bearings
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体积压缩性对圆柱底座隔震支座刚度的影响
DOI:
10.1016/0020-7683(90)90004-f
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发表时间:
1990
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
J. Kelly
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作者:
M. Chalhoub;J. Kelly
The seismic design technique based on mounting building structures on horizontally flexible foundations is becoming popular. The horizontal flexibility accompanied by a very high vertical stiffness is well realized by multilayered elastomeric bearings made of interleaved steel plates and rubber slices. The rubber is vulcanized to the steel to ensure bond. Several design expressions for such pads were already proposed. However, these expressions either consider the rubber incompressible or they account for compressibility by anad hocmodified formula. In this paper, the governing equations for the pressure in a rubber slice of arbitrary cross section are presented. The solution is carried out for the circular shape and compared to experimental results. It was found that the formula for the compressive stiffness of those bearings developed here by including the effect of bulk compressibility predicts very accurately the measured stiffness. The classically used formula that ignores the rubber compressibility yielded exaggerated over-estimation of the compression modulus. Thead hocmodified formula gave closer results but was still inaccurate. An expression derived from the exact solution and a simplified form are herein provided to replace thead hocmodified formula and the expression that ignores rubber compressibility.