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- MakaleYalnız künye2026Effects of earthquake frequency content and isolation thickness on seismic behavior of a structure system resting on geotechnical seismic isolation layer
Ozturk, Kasif Furkan; Cakir, Tufan; Araz, Onur
Geotechnical seismic isolation (GSI) systems aim to partially dissipate the energy before it reaches the foundation of the structure system and are therefore regarded as an important alternative to structural seismic isolation systems. In addition, the use of petroleum-derived waste materials in the GSI systems fills a significant gap in the field of waste recovery. The present study investigates the changes in the dynamic responses of a 5-story building system with and without GSI, using a set of earthquakes classified according to their frequency content. For this purpose, parametric analyses were performed using analytical methods, considering three different earthquake frequency contents and six different GSI thicknesses. Furthermore, an approach for selecting the GSI thickness was suggested. The results generally show that, for structures founded on both natural soil (NS) and GSI systems, the earthquakes with low frequency content produce responses greater than the average responses calculated for all the investigated earthquakes. Although increasing the GSI thickness has a significant effect on attenuating structural responses, increasing this thickness beyond 3 m does not lead to a relatively significant reduction in the dynamic responses of the investigated structural system. Therefore, considering the structural system, NS, rubber-soil mixtures and earthquakes examined in this study, selecting a GSI thickness in the range of 2–3 m (inclusive) may be regarded as a practical approach for mitigating the dynamic responses of the structure since further increments in thickness beyond this range provide only progressively limited improvements in structural responses. Consequently, this research may provide meaningful data for the development of vibration control strategies to improve seismic resilience of structures, and the results are expected to be useful for better understanding of the GSI applications.
- MakaleYalnız künye2020Dynamic properties of sand-bitumen mixtures as a geotechnical seismic isolation material
Kuvat, Ahmet; Sadoglu, Erol
Geotechnical seismic isolation (GSI) has been emerged as an economical and alternative method in recent years that reduces earthquake that will affect the superstructure. Crumb rubber-granular soil mixtures (SRM) are generally used as damping geomaterial in this method. However, the major disadvantage of SRM is that the addition of rubber leads to significant reduction in stiffness of the granular soil. In this study, dynamic properties (secant shear modulus (Gsec) and damping ratio (D)) of sand and bitumen mixtures (SB) which can be used as damping materials in GSI systems were determined by cyclic triaxial tests. In addition, monotonic triaxial tests were performed to determine the pre- and post-cyclic behavior of the mixtures. In the cyclic tests, the effect of bitumen penetration and content on the energy absorption capacity of the bituminous specimens was examined depending on cyclic stress ratio (CSR), cell pressure and loading frequency. According to the findings, it was determined that higher bitumen penetration and (CSR) result in decrease of Gsec and increase of D, yet the increase in confining pressure and the increase in loading frequency have the opposite effect. For the specimens prepared with both bitumen types, it was specified that the D increased depending on the increase of bitumen content, and the highest Gsec value was observed to be bitumen content of 8%. Moreover, the findings obtained from the monotonic triaxial tests showed that after a high number of cyclic loading, the peak deviatoric stresses of the SB samples increase slightly.