NEESR-CR: Design of Soil and Structure Compatible Yielding to Improve System Performance

NEESR-CR：土壤和结构兼容产量设计以提高系统性能

• 批准号: 0936503
• 负责人: Bruce Kutter
• 金额: $ 78.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0936503&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NEESR; CR; Design; Soil; Structure

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award is an outcome of the NSF 09-524 program solicitation ''George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Research (NEESR)'' competition and includes the University of California, Davis (lead institution) and Santa Clara University (subaward), and the University of California, San Diego (subaward). This project will utilize the NEES equipment site at the University of California, Davis.Hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives are at risk when a major earthquake shakes a metropolitan area. Building damage or collapse is one of the primary contributors to the risk. Huge investments are being made to improve performance of new and old structures by including structural or mechanical energy dissipation devices such as dampers (huge shock absorbers) and even complex computer controlled actuators to counteract effects of earthquake shaking. Geotechnical and structural engineers, however, generally understand that a lot of the damaging shaking energy can be effectively dissipated just by allowing the foundations to absorb the energy. Energy that would otherwise damage a building can be dissipated through friction at the soil-foundation interface as well as by radiation back into the ground. Civil engineers understand this today, but they are reluctant to design buildings with foundations that rock (just a little) due to: (i) the understandable perception that geotechnical material properties are less certain than structural material properties and (ii) the partition between structural and geotechnical responsibility in our traditional engineering design process. (Presently, structural engineers design the part of the building above the ground and geotechnical engineers design the foundations, and there is minimal interaction between the two.)While it is clear that the bearing capacity of shallow foundations is very sensitive to uncertain soil properties, the moment capacity of typical shallow foundations is much more predictable than the bearing capacity. Rocking has the added benefit of introducing a natural self-centering tendency; imagine tilting a refrigerator a few degrees, and then letting go ? the refrigerator will rock back and forth a little, but it will eventually end up standing vertical (this is what we mean by ?self-centering?. Geotechnical and structural engineers would need to work together to ensure that rocking movement of a foundation, for example, is compatible with the movement of the rest of the building. This work will bring together leaders in structural and geotechnical engineering from universities and private engineering firms to figure out how to perform the collaborative holistic building design that allows us to design buildings that can move with a rocking foundation and hence allow us to take advantage of cost effective energy dissipation in the foundation. A strong technology transfer team that includes practicing engineers will work with the academics in this project to help ensure that innovative concepts are not impractical. Teaming with construction and practicing engineers actively involved in building code revision will also help speed our results toward adoption by the profession.Avoiding over-designed, over-conservative footings and reducing requirements for energy dissipation mechanisms within the superstructure will save construction costs and can improve performance. There is almost no experimental data available to indicate how rocking foundations will dynamically interact with a yielding structural system. This proposal will fill this gap by performing experiments on a NEES centrifuge facility. Computer simulations validated by experiments will be used to generalize findings over a larger range of prototype situations. Although our work focuses on buildings, the use of inelastic soil-foundation behavior incorporating energy dissipating and self-centering is applicable to a large array of bridges, towers, and taller buildings. Improved performance will lead to a reduction in economic and human losses associated with earthquakes. An effort to recruit new engineers by inviting groups of students in MESA (an organization that helps educationally disadvantaged students succeed in Math, Engineering, and Science) programs at local community colleges learn about civil engineering will help grow a diverse engineering workforce. Data from this project will be archived and made available to the public through the NEES data repository.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。小布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）研究（NEESR）竞赛，包括加州大学戴维斯分校（牵头机构）和圣克拉拉大学（子奖项），以及加州大学圣地亚哥分校（子奖项）。 该项目将利用位于加州大学戴维斯分校的NEES设备场地。当一场大地震震动一个大都市地区时，数千亿美元和数千人的生命将面临危险。 建筑物损坏或倒塌是造成风险的主要因素之一。 正在进行巨大的投资，以改善新老结构的性能，包括结构或机械能量耗散装置，如阻尼器（巨大的减震器），甚至复杂的计算机控制的致动器，以抵消地震震动的影响。 然而，岩土工程师和结构工程师通常都知道，许多破坏性的震动能量可以通过允许基础吸收能量来有效地消散。 原本会损坏建筑物的能量可以通过土壤-地基界面的摩擦以及辐射回地面而消散。 土木工程师今天理解这一点，但他们不愿意设计具有岩石（只是一点点）的基础的建筑物，原因是：（i）可以理解的看法，即岩土材料特性不如结构材料特性确定，以及（ii）在我们传统的工程设计过程中，结构和岩土责任之间的划分。（目前，结构工程师设计地面以上的建筑部分，岩土工程师设计地基，两者之间的相互作用最小。显然，浅基础的承载力对不确定的土壤特性非常敏感，但典型浅基础的弯矩承载力比承载力更容易预测。 摇摆还有一个额外的好处，那就是引入自然的自动居中倾向;想象一下将冰箱倾斜几度，然后放手？冰箱会前后摇晃，但最终会直立（这就是我们所说的？自我中心？ 岩土工程师和结构工程师需要共同努力，以确保基础的摇摆运动与建筑物其他部分的运动相适应。 这项工作将汇集来自大学和私人工程公司的结构和岩土工程领导者，以找出如何执行协作的整体建筑设计，使我们能够设计出可以在摇摆基础上移动的建筑物，从而使我们能够利用具有成本效益的基础能量耗散。 一个强大的技术转让团队，包括执业工程师将与该项目的学者合作，以帮助确保创新的概念是不切实际的。 与积极参与建筑规范修订的施工和执业工程师合作，也将有助于加快我们的成果被行业采用。避免过度设计、过度保守的基础，并减少对上部结构内耗能机制的要求，将节省施工成本，并提高性能。 几乎没有实验数据表明摇摆基础将如何与屈服结构系统动态相互作用。 该提案将通过在NEES离心机设施上进行实验来填补这一空白。 通过实验验证的计算机模拟将用于在更大范围的原型情况下推广研究结果。虽然我们的工作重点是建筑物，使用非弹性土壤基础的行为，包括能量耗散和自定心适用于大量的桥梁，塔楼和高层建筑。 性能的提高将减少与地震有关的经济和人员损失。 通过邀请梅萨（一个帮助教育上处于不利地位的学生在数学，工程和科学方面取得成功的组织）的学生团体来招募新的工程师，在当地社区学院学习土木工程，将有助于培养多样化的工程队伍。 该项目的数据将通过NEES数据库存档并向公众提供。