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The excitation of the TLGGD is due to projec-
tion of the floor absolute acceleration a A in the
trace of the TLCGD-mid-plane, unit vector e ' ,
as in Eq.(1).
Given the relative floor acceleration of the
floor's center of mass C M with respect to ground,
a C
point C f to the center of floor mass C M is under-
stood,
(
)
2 
M
=
m H u r
κ
F z
z
C x
f T
T
S
Ay
A
C
M
M
(
)
+
F y
y
(15)
Az
A
C
M
=
  
, , , and a single point uniax-
ial obliquely incident seismic ground excitation
v
v
w
u
In case of strong asymmetry the application
of a more efficient torsional TLCGD (TTLCGD)
is recommended. A schematic view of the TTLC-
GD is given in Figure 2c. Its horizontal ring shaped
pipe system forms an almost closed loop enclos-
ing the modal center of velocity, ending with two,
sealed vertical pipe sections close to each other
at the optimally selected reference point A .
Based on the properly adapted generalized
Bernoulli equation, Eq.(1), the linearized equa-
tion of motion of the relative fluid flow in the
TTLCGD results,
M
M
T
M
= cos α , w
g = sin α , further assuming
that the TLCGD is installed with its trace in a
general direction γ with respect to the y -axis,
evaluation of Eq.(12) yields, for details see Fu et
al. (2010) or Fu (2008),
a
a
g

2
u
+
2
ζ ω
u
+
ω
u
= −
κ
{
a
cos(
α γ
)
A A
A
g
u
r


+
[
v
(
z
z
)
T
]cos
γ
M
A
C
M
S
u
r

[ 
+
w
+
(
y
y
)
T
]sin }
γ
M
A
C
M

2

u
+
2
ζ ω
u
+
ω
u
= −
κ
u
,
S
A A
A
T
0
TT
(13)
A
r L
2
2
(16)

p

κ
=
,
u
=
r
θ
,
= m r
f
I
T
0
TT
f
fx
f
f
eff
For sake of substructure synthesis the general-
ized interaction forces are calculated applying the
conservation of momentum and angular momen-
tum of the fluid mass m f , with respect to its
center of mass, C f . Neglecting all undesired
nonlinear parts and assuming small floor rotations
θ 1 the linearized interaction forces become
where A p denotes the area enclosed by the
TTLCGD-loop projected onto the floor plane.
The control and interaction moment with respect
to the floor's center of mass C M becomes, see Fu
et al. (2010),
(
)
κ
y
κ
z
+
F
=
m a
cos
cos
α
+
v

z
z
u

r
M
=
m r u

+
T
3
A
a
T
3
A
a
m r
κ
u

,
Ay
f
g
M
A
C
T
S
C x
f
f
TT
Az
Ay
f
f T
0
r
r
M
M
f
f

+
κ
m u
γ
z
r
f
F
m a
v

u

A
=
cos
α
+
κ 3
,
(
)


C y
f
g
M
T
TT
F
=
m a
sin
sin
α
+
w
+
y
y
u
r
M
f
Az
f
g
M
A
C
T
S
M
y
r

+
κ
m u
γ


F
=
m
a
sin
α
+
w
+
κ
u
A
,
f
C z
f
g
M
T
3
TT
M
(14)
f
L
L
eff
κ
=
κ
,
κ
= 2
H L
T
0
T
0
T
3
1
1
(17)
κ is defined in Eq.(4). The resulting moment about
the vertical axis becomes, transformation from
It can be concluded that the TTLCGD should
be installed on the floor with largest modal rota-
 
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