Hydraulic Seismic Isolation System with Multilayer Sliding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing seismic isolation systems are inadequate for large-scale buildings as they cannot sustain huge pressures and cause elastic fatigue in components, and they fail to effectively manage wind pressure and vibrations from typhoons or hurricanes.
Innovation Solution
A building seismic isolation and snubber system using hydraulic oil pressure systems, indoor sensors, and a processing unit to detect oblique angles and distribute damping forces, combined with multilayer sliding systems and absorber systems to eliminate vertical and horizontal vibrations, ensuring equilibrium and safety during earthquakes and strong winds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional seismic isolation systems are used, then they can provide basic seismic protection, but they cannot sustain huge pressures and cause elastic fatigue in components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs hydraulic oil pressure systems as the core damping mechanism. Hydraulic pistons and cylinders generate controllable damping forces through fluid pressure, enabling the system to sustain huge seismic loads without the elastic fatigue that plagues mechanical spring-based systems. The hydraulic fluid's incompressibility provides stable, reliable pressure maintenance under extreme conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts damping parameters through hydraulic pressure control. The processing unit modifies the hydraulic oil pressure in real-time based on seismic intensity, allowing the damping force to adapt to varying earthquake conditions. This parameter adjustment capability enables the system to maintain optimal performance across different seismic events without component fatigue.
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing seismic isolation systems are used, then they can reduce some seismic effects, but they fail to effectively manage wind pressure and vibrations from typhoons or hurricanes
Solution Approach 1:
The hydraulic oil pressure system serves multiple functions: it provides seismic damping during earthquakes, resists wind pressure during typhoons, and absorbs general environmental vibrations. The same hydraulic damping mechanism adapts to different hazard types through real-time pressure adjustment, making the system universally effective against various environmental loads.
Solution Approach 2:
Sensors continuously monitor building motion and environmental conditions, feeding data to the processing unit. The processing unit adjusts hydraulic pressure in response to detected wind loads or seismic activity, enabling the system to adapt dynamically to different environmental hazards. This feedback loop allows the system to distinguish between seismic and wind-induced loads and respond appropriately.
3Stability of the object's composition
If hydraulic oil pressure systems are activated to relieve pressure, then building equilibrium is maintained, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is designed to be self-regulating through automated hydraulic control. The processing unit and sensors work together to automatically adjust hydraulic pressure without external intervention. The system self-diagnoses and responds to seismic events, reducing the need for complex manual control mechanisms while maintaining building equilibrium.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively reduces kinetic energy from seismic waves, extends the service life of components, and maintains building stability without collapse, ensuring safety and minimizing damage from earthquakes and wind-induced stresses.
Implementation Method 1
hydraulic oil pressure systems in a building, a building's weight sustained by the previously designed and installed seismic isolation and snubber system, and any earthquake-induced stress scattered or absorbed
Implementation Method 2
the corresponding damping force is regulated by the hydraulic oil pressure system to adjust and distribute a building's equilibrium, so as to deliver any earthquake-induced stress properly controlled and distributed
Implementation Method 3
a supporting isolation layer with a plurality of curved ball seats on its upper and lower surfaces and a plurality of corresponding balls installed for ultra-low frictional thrust between curved ball seats and corresponding balls
Implementation Method 4
any earthquake-induced horizontal kinetic energy from destructive horizontal shakes transferred to a building's vertical potential energy due to balls and curved ball seats reciprocally rolling during an earthquake
Implementation Method 5
a plurality of linkage snubbers installed between any support isolation layer and a building are effective in earthquake-induced vertical kinetic energy transferred to sliding shoes' horizontal kinetic energy and further proportionally absorbed by bow buffer springs based on the lever principle
Implementation Method 6
sensors and a processing unit for a seismic wave signal emitted (or transmitted) from the seismic wave detection system and simultaneously received by the processing unit
Data Source
AI summary
A building's seismic isolation and snubber system for a seismic isolation mechanism instantly activated includes sensors, a processing unit, absorber systems, hydraulic oil pressure systems and multilayer sliding systems. In this regard, a sensor detecting any earthquake-induced strike and dip in a building's quadrant of operation could supply an oblique angle to the processing unit in which the oblique angle thereof is transferred to any hydraulic oil pressure system's coefficient of damping for the hydraulic oil pressure system's corresponding damping force generated to control and distribute a building's equilibrium, and any multilayer sliding system is used to yield or eliminate any seismic horizontal vibrations for the said elements developing all functions, substantially reducing and distributing earthquake-induced stresses, and delivering a building with seismic vibrations effectively isolated and prevented.