With Paper ID: 243, the UGM Faculty of Engineering was awarded the best paper and best speaker at the International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering Structures and Construction Materials (SCESCM) in Malaysia. The International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering Structures and Construction Materials is an international conference that is held once in two years.
This year, it was the University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia’s turn to organize the 5th SCESCM. It raised the theme of “Transforming The World, Foster The Sustainable Development Goals.” By now, SCESCM is a forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners, and academics in civil engineering to further support sustainable development goals.
“There were 280 speakers from various universities and countries over the world attending SCESCM 2020,” said Dr. Ali Awaludin at the UGM Faculty of Engineering on Tuesday (19/1).
He explained that there were two selection stages at SCESCM 2020, paper submission and a conference. The paper submission stage was held until 31 July 2020. Participants then proposed their reviewed papers to attend the conference held on 8-9 December 2020.
“SCESCM 2020 gave awards for two categories: the best paper and best speaker. We won both of them,” he explained.
Paper ID: 243 Team from the Faculty of Engineering UGM consists of Andika Monanta Emilidardi, Dr. Angga Fajar Setyawan, Dr. Ali Awaludin, Prof. Iman Satyarno, and Mukhlis Sunarso. They presented the design of multi-directional earthquake dampers.
The earthquake dampening tool is known as the Finned Tubular Shear Panel Damper (FTSPD). FTSPD has a concept that uses a ductile material that can manage its post-yield stiffness during the plastic phase.
“The goal is that the FTSPD can be steady in anticipating earthquake energy so that the structure of the building under its protection will be safe. After going through selection stages, the UGM team eventually won the best paper award at the 5th SCESCM 2020,” he conveyed.
Andika Monanta Emilidardi added the FTSPD device is designed to lessen and anticipate earthquakes from various directions. Thus, the force and moment reactions in the structure due to the earthquake can be reduced. According to him, the earthquake damper device dissipates the earthquake energy hitting the structure.
“The principle of the Hysteresis FTSPD earthquake damper is to take advantage of the material plastic properties. Thus, steel material with good ductility is utilized to manage device stability in anticipating earthquake energy so that the tool can absorb large earthquake energy. “The researchers selected geometric with the tube shape to accommodate earthquake shots from various directions,” he said.
Andika also explained that this FTSPD design idea was a component that absorbed the largest energy in a building. It uses a low structural component as the trick to looking for the most vulnerable structural component.
FTSPD was designed to have a larger energy dissipation capacity than other structural components. By this design, it is expected that FTSPD can absorb most of the earthquake energy so that there would only be insignificant damage from the building structure due to the earthquake.
Andika also admitted that currently, there had been no direct benefits from this tool design because no one had implemented this tool directly in buildings. The design of this tool is still in process. Only the test results showing FTSPD met expectations as an earthquake damper because it matched the existing standard criteria.
“Hopefully, in the future, the implementation of FTSPD can minimize the destruction and risk of earthquakes to buildings,” he explained.
To make this FTSPD tool later, it will cost 1 million rupiahs to apply this in every city. An equitably affordable price is one of the benefits of this tool.
“It’s only approximately 1 million rupiahs. It is very affordable compared to the lead rubber-bearing earthquake damper in which the cost reaches up to tens to hundreds of millions. Unfortunately, the tool is still in the process of the experimental trial stage,” Andika added.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/20638-ftspd-alat-peredam-gempa-murah-raih-best-paper-di-scescm
