AN EXPERIMENTAL METHOD TO EXAMINE PROPERTY CHANGE OF TUNED VISCOUS MASS DAMPER

Abstract

In this paper, we build an experimental environment based on real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) technique in order to examine the robustness of tuned viscous mass damper (TVMD) against variation of supporting spring stiffness and damping coefficient. A full scale rotary inertial damper specimen is employed as the physical substructure in the experimental set up. Pure numerical analysis results validate the proposed experimental method.