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Shake Table Experiments of Surge Arrester for Evaluation of Ground Motion Amplification


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1 PhD Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NITK, Mangalore-575 025, India
2 EngineeringOfficer, Earthquake Engineering & Vibration Research Centre, CPRI, Bangalore, 560 080, India
3 Additional Director, Earthquake Engineering & Vibration Research Centre, CPRI, Bangalore, 560 080, India
4 Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NITK, Mangalore- 575 025, India
     

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The support structure of a surge arrester within the substation is considered for the experimental and finite element study. Support structures are generally used in a substation mainly for the electrical ground clearance purposes but also it protects the mounting equipment with respect to earthquake loads. The paper is aimed to find out the acceleration amplification levels at base of the support structure at severe earthquake loadings even when it is mounted on steel support structures. Seismic tests are carried out experimentally on shake table. The behavior of the support structure is found satisfactory. No material losses are resulted. Finite element studies are also included in the paper. The finite element model predictions are agreeable to the experimental results.

Keywords

Surge Arrester, Ground Motion Amplification, Shake Table Tests.
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Authors

N. Srujana
PhD Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NITK, Mangalore-575 025, India
R. Panneer Selvam
EngineeringOfficer, Earthquake Engineering & Vibration Research Centre, CPRI, Bangalore, 560 080, India
R. Ramesh Babu
Additional Director, Earthquake Engineering & Vibration Research Centre, CPRI, Bangalore, 560 080, India
Katta Venkataramana
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NITK, Mangalore- 575 025, India

Abstract


The support structure of a surge arrester within the substation is considered for the experimental and finite element study. Support structures are generally used in a substation mainly for the electrical ground clearance purposes but also it protects the mounting equipment with respect to earthquake loads. The paper is aimed to find out the acceleration amplification levels at base of the support structure at severe earthquake loadings even when it is mounted on steel support structures. Seismic tests are carried out experimentally on shake table. The behavior of the support structure is found satisfactory. No material losses are resulted. Finite element studies are also included in the paper. The finite element model predictions are agreeable to the experimental results.

Keywords


Surge Arrester, Ground Motion Amplification, Shake Table Tests.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.33686/prj.v9i3.189566