Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Shin, Hyun
Author's Email Address	hyshin@vt.edu
URN	etd-12092010-163513
Title	Life-Cycle Cost-Based Optimal Seismic Design of Structures with Energy Dissipation Devices
Degree	PhD
Department	Civil Engineering
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Plaut, Raymond H. Committee Co-Chair Singh, Mahendra P. Committee Co-Chair Charney, Finley A. Committee Member Kapania, Rabesh K. Committee Member Roberts-Wollmann, Carin L. Committee Member
Keywords	Life-Cycle Cost Structural Optimization Passive Device
Date of Defense	2010-11-16
Availability	restricted
Abstract Seismic designs of building structures are currently made based on the design criterion of life-safety and this requires that the structures do not collapse to compromise safety of people in the structure, but they can be designed to experience some damage. However, this design approach has allowed large economic losses primarily due to the damage to the nonstructural components at relatively moderate levels of seismic intensities. This led to a new thinking about design approach called performance-based design approach that satisfies the life-safety objective at the same time, reduces the economic loss to an acceptable level. The performance-based design approaches are multi-level design that addresses several different levels of structural performances under different levels of seismic intensities. In this study, we have investigated the use of energy dissipating damping devices to achieve the performance of a building structure in a desirable manner over all levels of seismic intensity. Since the initial motivation of performance-based design was reducing economic loss, the life-cycle cost-based optimization is considered in this study to obtain the optimal designs with different damping devices. For the optimal design, three types of devices are used in this study: fluid viscous dampers, solid visco-elastic dampers, and yielding metallic dampers. The combinations of two different types of dampers are also examined in this study. The genetic algorithm (GA) approach is adopted as an optimizer that searches for the optimal solution in an iterative manner. Numerical results from the application of the optimal design to the selected model building are presented to demonstrate the iii applicability of the developed approach and to estimate the effectiveness of the obtained optimal design with each device. It is shown in the results that the optimal design with each individual damping devices or the combination of two different types of damping devices are very effective in reducing the expected failure cost as well as the displacement response quantities and fragilities. The results also show that the optimal designs focus relatively more on reducing economic losses for the lower but more frequent excitation intensities as these intensities contribute most to the failure costs.
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