Research on Seismic Response and Damping Effect for High-Speed Railway Seismic Isolated Bridge

Abstract

With the development of high-speed railway in recent years, lots of researchers have been paying more and more attention to the seismic isolation of high-speed railway bridge. The equivalent linear model of hysteretic characteristics of lead rubber bearings (LRB) is presented, the computational method and the varying range of dynamic parameters effecting hysteretic characteristics of LRB are established. The finite model of a high-speed railway bridge including simulating of LRB is set up by ANSYS software. The seismic responses and seismic isolation ratio of high-speed isolated bridge installed LRB are calculated, and isolation effect are compared with those fabricated the common bearings; the factors which influence seismic isolation are analyzed. The calculation results show that the bending moment and shear force of pier bottom of and displacement of grider decrease effectively for that bridge with LRB, the LRB has excellent performance on seismic isolation and energy dissipation.