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01.09.2013
Sensitive equipments on WRS-BTU isolators
Erschienen in: Meccanica | Ausgabe 7/2013
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Abstract
Wire rope springs (WRS) are widely used to protect sensitive equipment from shock or vibrations but they do not have the characteristics of a seismic isolator that must have a high vertical stiffness to support the vertical load with an acceptable vertical deflection and, at the same time, a low horizontal stiffness to isolate low frequency ground horizontal acceleration of an earthquake.
To take advantage of their peculiar characteristics due to the dry friction that arises among the wires, they can be adopted in parallel with a Ball Transfer Unit (BTU), able to support vertically the weight of the sensitive equipment and to allow the equipment itself to move in any horizontal direction with low friction. The WRS-BTU isolator can be considered rigid in the vertical direction and the horizontal stiffness can be properly chosen to give the isolated system a low natural frequency and a suitable re-centering force.
In order to evaluate the feasibility of adopting an isolator based on WRS and BTU, a prototype was developed and tested. In this paper, the description of the seismic isolator prototype and some experimental results are presented; it is also presented a procedure to identify the restoring force by means of the Bouc-Wen model. Finally, adopting this analytical description of the restoring force, the non-linear behavior of sensitive equipment suspended on these isolators, for different operational conditions, is simulated.