Pounding between Adjacent Frame Structures under Earthquake Excitation Based on Transfer Matrix Method of Multibody Systems

Table 4

Peak displacement of J₁, under the excitation of seismic wave.

Seismic peak acceleration	Separation gap	El Centro-MS-TMM (mm)	El Centro-ANSYS (mm)	Error (%)	Nanjing-MS-TMM (mm)	TAFT-MS-TMM (mm)
35 cm/s^2	10 mm	13.25	12.44	6.51	10.76	15.41
	20 mm	15.71	14.98	4.87	12.51	17.52
	30 mm	17.17	16.43	4.5	14.17	18.39
70 cm/s^2	10 mm	26.62	24.23	9.86	24.47	29.36
	40 mm	32.29	30.75	5.01	29.18	33.29
	60 mm	36.48	34.51	5.71	33.79	37.15
220 cm/s^2	100 mm	94.35	89.71	5.17	96.61	100.77
	130 mm	108.74	100.84	7.83	113.54	109.13
	150 mm	126.73	121.31	4.47	124.49	125.57
400 cm/s^2	100 mm	179.27	169.39	5.83	189.03	170.16
	200 mm	162.60	152.3	6.76	167.81	163.25
	210 mm	163.71	155.67	5.16	167.81	163.25