Improved time integration for pseudodynamic tests

✍ Scribed by Chang, Shuenn-Yih; Tsai, Keh-Chyuan; Chen, Kuan-Chou

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 258 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-8847
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9845(199807)27:7<711::aid-eqe753>3.0.co;2-6

✦ Synopsis

Converting the second-order differential equation to a first-order equation by integrating it with respect to time once as the governing equation of motion for a structural system can be very promising in the pseudodynamic testing. This was originally found and developed by Chang.\ The application of this time-integration technique to the Newmark explicit method is implimented and investigated in this paper. The main advantages of using the integral form of Newmark explicit method instead of the commonly used Newmark explicit method in a pseudodynamic test are: a less-error propagation effect, a better capability in capturing the rapid changes of dynamic loading and in eliminating the adverse linearization errors. All these improvements have been verified by theoretical studies and experimental tests. Consequently, for a same time step this time-integration technique may result in less-error propagation and achieve more accurate test results than applying the original form of Newmark explicit method in a pseudodynamic test due to these significant improvements. Thus, the incorporation of this proposed time-integration technique into the direct integration method for pseudodynamic testings is strongly recommended.