Comparison of the performance of friction pendulums with uniform and variable radii

The paper presents research done by means of numerical simulation on a rigid structure isolated with friction pendulums. To this aim, we design friction pendulums which differ by the shape and dimension of the cylindrical sliding surface, respectively by the friction coefficients. Our target was to find out how the structure responds to a given excitation when the structure is equipped with diverse friction pendulums. A sinusoidal excitation with the frequency of 1 Hz is applied and the response in terms of displacements is captured. We found that the frequency of the structure does not change with the FP radius but the amplitude of the displacement is strongly dependent on this parameter. Because the circular and elliptical sections of the FP provide the structure with different natural frequencies, the resonance is achieved at other radii