Study on seismic energy dissipation method of ancient pagoda based on Shape Memory Alloy actuating devices
Xiang Zhao, Sheliang Wang, Fulin Zhou, Xiangyun Huang · 2011
In the light of the principal load carrying and deformation features, combined with the ancient building protecting principles of “First protect” and “Repair like the old”, 3 SMA dampers are designed; a protection scheme that this supplemental system in the ancient pagoda structure can improve the earthquake resistance of the pagoda is proposed; the erection ways are subsequently investigated for SMA dampers; the computational procedure to determine the quantity of this control system is established. The concluding remarks in this paper could not only provide a theoretical foundation and technical support, but provide references for protection and repair of other historical buildings.