Desenvolvimento de um modelo computacional para simulação do comportamento dinâmico de vigas sanduíche com camada viscoelástica amortecedora

Abstract

The current civil engineering structures have shown pronounced dynamic behavior, imposing the need to check, during the design phase, this behavior. Despite these veri cations and normative recommendations, some structures experience large amplitudes of displacements under unexpected actions, then a vibration control system is required. An e cient way to control these structures is through passive vibration control systems with viscoelastic materials (VEM). Deterministic models are numerous in literature and they present fairly good approximations for the dynamics behavior of structures damped with VEM. These models however are unable to capture uncertainties associated, for instance, with the mechanical properties of materials. One way to capture these uncertainties is through non-deterministic models. Thus, this thesis discusses the numerical modeling of MVE addressing some of the factors that in uence the performance of numerical models, some strategies to adjust the parameters that de ne the frequency dependent behavior of these materials and present a proposal for a non-deterministic model. The aim of this model is provide to the designer, rather than a single value for the structures modal parameters and displacements, a probabilistic representation.