Dynamic Responses of High-Rise Base-Isolated Building during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Seismic responses of a high-rise base-isolated building in Tokyo Institute of Technology were recorded during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. The purpose of this paper is to point out various important findings on the building responses from the recorded data, as well as to create the data base for fostering immature research areas on high-rise base-isolated buildings and monitoring. This paper explains a variety of numerical techniques such as transfer function curve-fitting procedure for system identification, comparison with conventional structure by modal analysis, damper hysteresis, axial force variation of rubber bearing, and dynamic characteristic variation due to input amplitude. Reliability of recorded results is confirmed by various methods, and applicabilities of the techniques for the high-rise isolated building are discussed.