An iterative equivalent linearization approach for stochastic sensitivity analysis of hysteretic systems under seismic excitations based on explicit time-domain method

Abstract The sensitivity analysis of hysteretic systems under nonstationary random excitations is of great concern to the stochastic optimal design and control of structures. The equivalent linear equation of motion is first constructed for the hysteretic system by the equivalent linearization method (ELM), and the sensitivity equation of the equivalent linear system is then derived by the direct differentiation technique. These two equations are further combined into an overall equivalent linear equation, which depends on the statistical moments and sensitivities of responses of the system and should be solved on an iterative basis. The analysis problem is thus transformed to a series of nonstationary random vibration analyses of the iterative linearized systems, which can be solved with the explicit time-domain method (ETDM) recently proposed for linear random vibration problems. The ETDM has high computational efficiency owing to the explicit formulations of statistical moments of responses. Therefore, a numerical algorithm is developed by combining ELM and ETDM for efficient stochastic sensitivity analysis of hysteretic systems. A 100-degree-of-freedom hysteretic system is investigated to illustrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method, and a 10-degree-of-freedom base-isolated system is further analyzed to show the feasibility of the proposed method for stochastic structural optimization.

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