Recent Study on Seismic Performance and Response Control of Tall Buildings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xilin Lu ◽  
Huanjun Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Coupling Beams ◽  
Response Control ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Table Model ◽  
Performance Based Seismic Design

<p>As a result of rapid economic growth and urbanization, a huge amount of tall buildings have been constructed in Mainland China in the recent two decades. Tall buildings are the symbols of our industrialized societies and provide us more living and working spaces in the limited land. They have become one of the most important infrastructures in the renewal of our urban environment as well as the creation of new urban area throughout the world. However, tall buildings suffered serious damages during the past earthquakes. Some research and practice work of seismic performance and response control of tall buildings in Mainland China in recent years are introduced here, including the general methodologies for performance-based seismic design of tall buildings, shaking table model tests on complex tall buildings to evaluate the seismic performance of structures and accordingly revise the structural design, and a new type of earthquake resilient shear wall structure with replaceable coupling beams and replaceable foot parts.</p>

scholarly journals Shaking Table Model Test and Seismic Performance Analysis of a High-Rise RC Shear Wall Structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujin Li ◽  
Cai Wu ◽  
Fan Kong
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Model Test ◽  
Shaking Table Test ◽  
Technical Specification ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Table Model ◽  
Shaking Table Model Test

A building developed by Wuhan Shimao Group in Wuhan, China, is a high-rise residence with 56 stories near the Yangtze River. The building is a reinforced concrete structure, featuring with a nonregular T-type plane and a height 179.6 m, which is out of the restrictions specified by the China Technical Specification for Concrete Structures of Tall Building (JGJ3-2010). To investigate its seismic performance, a shaking table test with a 1/30 scale model is carried out in Structural Laboratory in Wuhan University of Technology. The dynamic characteristics and the responses of the model subject to different seismic intensities are investigated via the analyzing of shaking table test data and the observed cracking pattern of the scaled model. Finite element analysis of the shaking table model is also established, and the results are coincident well with the test. An autoregressive method is also presented to identify the damage of the structure after suffering from different waves, and the results coincide well with the test and numerical simulation. The shaking table model test, numerical analysis, and damage identification prove that this building is well designed and can be safely put into use. Suggestions and measures to improve the seismic performance of structures are also presented.

Research on Shaking Table Test of Masonry Building with Rowlock Cavity Walls

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 1196-1205
Author(s):  
Zhong Fan Chen ◽  
Fei Lu ◽  
Yang Yuan ◽  
Sha Sha Miao
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Structural Parameters ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Load Condition ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Cavity Wall ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Model Structure ◽  
Seismic Capacity

Rowlock cavity wall was widely used in rural house in Southern Jiangsu Province from 1980s to 1990s. As one type of masonry structures, the seismic performance of rowlock cavity wall has rarely been studied on. Based on the report of General Seismic Investigation in Jiangsu Qidong, one 1/2-scale rowlock cavity wall structure was modeled as the existing rural house, and was tested on shaking table in lab of Southeast University. After analyzing the failure state of the model, and examining the structural parameters such as natural frequency, damping ratio, floor acceleration, floor shift, strain and crack of the model in load condition of different earthquake wave and intensity, the seismic performance of rowlock wall structure was assessed. And the seismic capacity of the whole model and each piece of rowlock wall was also analyzed. Based on the mortar strength field inspected in model wall, the seismic capacity of model structure under the action of rarely occurred earthquake of level 6 seismic precautionary intensity was estimated. The result showed that the model structure would collapse under the load condition. Obviously, this can not satisfy the seismic precautionary requirement in Code for Seismic Design of Buildings (GB50011-2001). Therefore, some principal reinforcement suggestions were discussed and proposed for existing rowlock cavity wall buildings. The research result of this paper could provide some theoretical foundation for the Aseismic Residential Project of rural peasant house, and also could be referred to for further research on rowlock cavity wall structures.

Seismic Behavior of Super High-Rise Frame-Core Wall Structure

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 967-971
Author(s):  
Ji Xing Yuan ◽  
Qing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mode ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Time History ◽  
Frame Structure ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Coupling Beams ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Seismic Shear ◽  
Earthquake Force ◽  
Dynamic Time

In this paper a super high-rise frame-core wall as an example, It was analyzed the frame-core wall structure system under action of earthquake force features, set reasonable seismic performance objectives, analysis the structure reasonable failure mode, made it have enough bearing capacity and ductility for a reasonable design of frame and coupling wall-beam, could make the frame-core wall structure with multiple seismic fortification lines, improve the seismic performance of the frame-core wall structure. Finally, the action of earthquake deformation and seismic shear force distribution was analyzed through the elastic dynamic time-history analysis. After a reasonable optimization analysis showed: Frame-core wall structure could have three seismic fortification lines: coupling beams, core wall, frame structure, and had enough energy dissipation ability at the same time, could form the rational failure mode, improved the seismic performance of the structure.

STUDY ON PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER TOWER

2009 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 273-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
XILIN LU ◽  
JIEJIANG ZHU ◽  
YUN ZOU
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Seismic Design ◽  
Time History ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Nonlinear Time History Analysis ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Analytical Studies ◽  
Performance Based Seismic Design ◽  
Financial Center

The height of 101-storey Shanghai World Financial Center Tower is 492 m above ground. According to the philosophy of performance-based seismic design, the seismic performance design objectives and corresponding parameters were proposed for the structure under various seismic actions from frequent to rare earthquake levels. Analytical studies including refined finite element analysis, nonlinear time-history analysis, and stress distribution analysis on the important joint have been conducted to evaluate the structural seismic performance. Along with the analytical studies, shaking table model test and the important joint tests have been carried on in order to verify the accuracies of the analytical results as well as to complement the analytical studies. The results obtained from the studies demonstrate that the structural system meets the performance-based design objectives presented in the paper.

Seismic Performance Evaluation of a Steel-Concrete Hybrid Frame-Tube High-Rise Building Structure

2011 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Jun Jiang ◽  
Bo Fu ◽  
Lao Er Liu
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Time History ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Hybrid Structure ◽  
Nonlinear Time History Analysis ◽  
Seismic Performance Evaluation ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Nonlinear Time History

Due to its unique advantages, the steel-concrete hybrid structure has been widely used in tall buildings around the world. In Mainland China it has been utilized as one of the most popular structural types for super tall buildings. In this study the seismic performance of a code-exceeding tall building with the hybrid frame-tube structure to be constructed in Beijing is evaluated by numerical analysis. The analytic model of the structure is established with the aid of PERFORM-3D program, and the nonlinear time history analysis is performed by inputting four sets of earthquake ground motions. The elastic dynamic characteristics, the global displacement responses, the performance levels and the deformation demand-to-capacity ratios of structural components under different levels of earthquakes are presented. Numerical analysis results indicate that the hybrid structure has good seismic performance.

Shaking Table Test of Eccentric Reinforced Concrete Frame-Shear Wall Structure Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 1247-1250
Author(s):  
Bing Li ◽  
Li Na Lu ◽  
Hai Tao Lv ◽  
Xu Fang Li
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Shaking Table Test ◽  
Shear Wall ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Frame ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
High Rise

Reinforced concrete eccentric frame-shear wall structure has been widely used in engineering. However, this structure is mainly used for high-rise structure, and it is difficult to obtain accurate earthquake response of structure through experimental study. Therefore, simulation software needs to be used for study on seismic performance of high-rise structures. This paper produces useful conclusions for the project through shaking table test and the simulation of seismic performance provided by ANSYS finite element analysis software.

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