Experimental and analytical studies on the vibration serviceability of long-span prestressed concrete floor

An extensive experimental and theoretical research study was undertaken to study the vibration serviceability of a long-span prestressed concrete floor system to be used in the lounge of a major airport.Specifically,jumping impact tests were carried out to obtain the floor’s modal parameters,followed by an analysis of the distribution of peak accelerations.Running tests were also performed to capture the acceleration responses.The prestressed concrete floor was found to have a low fundamental natural frequency（≈8.86 Hz）corresponding to the average modal damping ratio of≈2.17%.A coefficients plate with simply-supported edges.The calculated analytical results（natural frequencies and root-mean-square acceleration）agree well with the experimental ones.The analytical approach is thus validated.

Aerodynamic and structural characteristics of helicopter rotor in circling flight

To investigate the distinct properties of the helicopter rotors during circling flight,the aerodynamic and dynamic models for the main rotor are established considering the trim conditions and the flight parameters of helicopters.The free wake method is introduced to compute the unsteady aerodynamic loads of the rotor characterized by distortions of rotor wakes,and the modal superposition method is used to predict the overall structural loads of the rotor.The effectiveness of the aerodynamic and the structural methods is verified by comparison with the experimental results,whereby the influences of circling direction,radius,and velocity are evaluated in both aerodynamic and dynamic aspects.The results demonstrate that the circling condition makes a great difference to the performance of rotor vortex,as well as the unsteady aerodynamic loads.With the decrease of the circling radius or the increment of the circling velocity,the thrust of the main rotor increases apparently to balance the inertial force.Meanwhile,the harmonics of aerodynamic loads in rotor disc change severely and an evident aerodynamic load shock appears at high-order components,which further causes a shift-of-peak-phase bending moment in the flap dimension.Moreover,the advancing side of blade experiences second blade/vortex interaction,whose intensity has a distinct enhancement as the circling radius decreases with the motion of vortexes.

NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF FATIGUE DAMAGE IN STEEL CATENARY RISER DUE TO VORTEX-INDUCED VIBRATION

For studying the characteristics of Steel Catenary Riser （SCR）, a simplified pinned-pinned cable model of vibration is established. The natural frequencies, the normalized mode shapes and mode curvatures of the SCR are calculated. The fatigue damage of the SCR can be obtained by applying the modal superposition method combined with the parameters of S -N curve. For analyzing the relation between the current velocity and the SCR＇s fatigue damage induced by the vortex-induced vibration, ten different current states are evaluated. Then, some useful conclusions are drawn, especially an important phenomenon is revealed that the maximum fatigue damage in the riser usually occurs near the area of the boundary ends.

Efficient Procedure for Seismic Analysis of Soil-Structure Interaction System

A simplified and efficient procedure, based on the viscous-spring artificial boundary and the modal superposition method, is developed to analyze the dynamic soil-structure interaction system in the time domain. The viscous-spring artificial boundary introduced in this procedure transforms the infinite soil-structure interaction system to an approximately finite system. A seismic wave input method is used to transform the wave scattering problem into the wave source problem. The modal superposition method is then applied to this approximate finite system. The results show that this method with only a few modes can significantly reduce the computational time with almost the same precision as the traditional direct integration method. Comparison of results from different loading times demonstrates that the advantages of this method are evident in computing with long loading time.

Experimental Investigation and Numerical Simulation of Ship Stern Structural Vibration Model

Vibration at the stern area is generally the most severe of the entire ship hull,which has always attracted special attention by ship designers and researchers.With reference to a real ship structural layout,a scaled stern model of steel structure was innovatively designed to carry out the mode and response tests.Corresponding finite element(FE)model representing the tested structure was established for verification of commonly-used calculation methods of modal parameters and response.Good agreement between experimental and numerical results demonstrates the credibility of FE method,and some key points of modeling and calculating are discussed.In addition,with the combination of the experiment and calculation,some vibration characteristics of ship stern structure are summarized for future ship design guideline.