The efficiency of a tuned liquid damper(TLD)in controlling the dynamic responses of offshore monopile platforms underseismic excitation has been investigated in this paper.Damping is performed by applying a type of re...The efficiency of a tuned liquid damper(TLD)in controlling the dynamic responses of offshore monopile platforms underseismic excitation has been investigated in this paper.Damping is performed by applying a type of reservoir inside a tower,which is designed optimally via seawater and a monopile body.Hydrodynamic forces due to water surface oscillation inthe reservoir act as resistant forces against structure vibration and displacement.Using ANSYS finite element(FE)software,a monopile structure with the same dimensions as the samples in the Persian Gulf climate was modeled and thenanalyzed in this research using the transient time history analysis related to the records of El-Centro,Kobe,and Tabasearthquakes for seismic investigation.The dynamic responses of the monopile platform with and without TLD werecompared after the completion of FE results.Findings show that using the mentioned TLDs reduced structure displacementby more than 50%based on the earthquake frequency content.展开更多
文摘The efficiency of a tuned liquid damper(TLD)in controlling the dynamic responses of offshore monopile platforms underseismic excitation has been investigated in this paper.Damping is performed by applying a type of reservoir inside a tower,which is designed optimally via seawater and a monopile body.Hydrodynamic forces due to water surface oscillation inthe reservoir act as resistant forces against structure vibration and displacement.Using ANSYS finite element(FE)software,a monopile structure with the same dimensions as the samples in the Persian Gulf climate was modeled and thenanalyzed in this research using the transient time history analysis related to the records of El-Centro,Kobe,and Tabasearthquakes for seismic investigation.The dynamic responses of the monopile platform with and without TLD werecompared after the completion of FE results.Findings show that using the mentioned TLDs reduced structure displacementby more than 50%based on the earthquake frequency content.
