DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ROTARY RUBBER DAMPER SYSTEM WITH
CONSIDERING OF DIFFERENT RUBBER AND BONDING MATERIAL
1 Department
H. Khatibi1, M. Suhatril1
of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Malaysia, 50603,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
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Contact's e-mail address: Meldi@um.edu.my
In this paper dynamic response of proposed Rotary Rubber Damper (RRD) with
different rubber materials as well as connector bonds which act as the most important
energy dissipation components are evaluated. The RRD scheme is one of the
innovative passive structural controller technique which increase overall lateral stiffness
of structure under dynamic loads. The RRD also offer additional damping characteristic
at a specified range of frame lateral displacement. The developed system is applicable
for high rise structures or residential buildings in seismic prone zone. Moreover RRD
element is installed in structural frames such as damper connection that is able to
dissipate any type of vibration induced by dynamic load such as seismic and wind load
through the shear action of embedded rubber in aforementioned system. In this study a
variety of Rubber and bonding materials between steel plates are considered and
evaluated in light of dynamic analysis and finite element simulation under monotonic
displacement. The results observed in terms of energy dissipation value of models were
compared and finally then the best material’s specifications to utilize in RRD have been
introduced.
Keywords: Rotary Rubber Damper system, Dynamic analysis, Rubber, Visco-elastic material,
Finite element simulation, monotonic displacement