Anzhelika А. Dolgaya
JSC «TRANSMOST», Cand. Sci. (Engineering), engineer. Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Selecting elastic-damping parameters of seismic isolating bearings of a highway bridge
Issue: #3-2024
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Seismic isolation of
a road bridge in the seismic region of Uzbekistan with a design seismicity of 9
degrees on the MSK-scale is considered. A special feature of the bridge is the
large mass of the spans, which is almost 50 times greater than the reduced pier
mass. At a first glance, this rules out tuning the isolation to mass dynamic
regime. The rigidity of seismic isolation is determined basing on the condition
of limiting the mutual displacement of spans. Even at this limitation, seismic
loads were reduced by approximately two times, i.e. by one intensity number. A
more effective isolation method has been proposed, that is, when one span is
rigidly fixed to the pier and the other is seismically isolated, and then the
isolation can be tuned, ensuring the operation of the isolated span as the mass
damper. In this case, the load on one of the piers is reduced by more than two
times and that on the adjacent pier by more than four times.
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