Shake Table Test of Complex High-Rise Building Equipped with Torsional Vibration Control Device

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 3889-3893
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Juan He ◽  
Hui Gao ◽  
Xu Gang Chen

For many high-rising buildings, large local space is very useful for its special function needs, such as conference hall and hotel lobby. The shake table test results of a high-rising building with large local space show that the dynamic characteristics of such structure are complex and the torsional mode becomes the first mode, while the torsional responses under earthquake excitation, especially of the floor just above the large local space, are very remarkable. In this paper, the bidirectional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) is employed for reducing the torsional vibration of such complex high-rise building structure. A reduced-scale model is design and constructed. A series of shake table tests are carried out and the test results indicate that the TMD system is very effective in torsional vibration control of structural system.

2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 2590-2594
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Juan He

In this research, a reduced scale model of the composite high-rise building with steel reinforced concrete column, steel beam and reinforced concrete core tube was designed and tested by using the shake table test technology. The acceleration and displacement of the model were measured during the tests. The cracking pattern and failure mechanism were illustrated. Above the shake table test, the finite element analysis of the test mode was carried out. The main effort of the numerical analysis was focused on the selection of the nonlinear models. Based on the experiment results and the strategy of considering nonlinear property of the beam-column joint and the short beam of the concrete core wall were proposed. It is proved that the proposed strategy is effective and economical for seismic behavior assessment of such composite high-rise building structure system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3315
Author(s):  
Fabio Rizzo

Experimental wind tunnel test results are affected by acquisition times because extreme pressure peak statistics depend on the length of acquisition records. This is also true for dynamic tests on aeroelastic models where the structural response of the scale model is affected by aerodynamic damping and by random vortex shedding. This paper investigates the acquisition time dependence of linear transformation through singular value decomposition (SVD) and its correlation with floor accelerometric signals acquired during wind tunnel aeroelastic testing of a scale model high-rise building. Particular attention was given to the variability of eigenvectors, singular values and the correlation coefficient for two wind angles and thirteen different wind velocities. The cumulative distribution function of empirical magnitudes was fitted with numerical cumulative density function (CDF). Kolmogorov–Smirnov test results are also discussed.


2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 3066-3071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Hui Gao

According to the shake table test results of a high-rising building with large local space, the dynamic characteristics of such structure are complex and the torsional mode becomes the first mode, while the torsional responses under earthquake excitation, especially of the floor just above the large local space, are very remarkable. Special measures are required for such structural system for maintaining its seismic safety. In this research, the bidirectional Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) is employed for reducing the torsional vibration of the high-rising building with large local space. The optimization of the TMD parameters, such as natural frequency, damping ratios and mass ratio, is performed. The time history analysis results indicate that the proposed bidirectional TMD is very effective in torsional vibration control.


Author(s):  
Fabio Rizzo ◽  
Alessandro Pagliaroli ◽  
Giuseppe Maddaloni ◽  
Antonio Occhiuzzi ◽  
Andrea Prota

<p>The paper discusses results of shaking table tests on an in-scale high-rise building model. The purpose was to calibrate a dynamic numerical model for multi-hazard analyses to investigate the effects of floor acceleration. Accelerations, because of vibration of non-structural elements, affect both the comfort and safety of people. The research investigates the acceleration effects of both seismic and wind forces on an aeroelastic in-scale model of a multi-story building. The paper discusses the first phase of experiments and gives results of floor accelerations induced by several different base seismic impulses. Structural analyses were first performed on the full-scale prototype to take soil-structure interaction into account. Subsequently the scale model was designed through aeroelastic scale laws. Shaking table experiments were then carried out under different base accelerations. The response of the model and, in particular, amplification of effects from base to top are discussed.</p>


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