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Optimal Placement of Mega-Brace Dampers for Integrated Seismic Design of Super Tall Building Structures

 Optimal Placement of Mega-Brace Dampers for Integrated Seismic Design of Super Tall Building Structures
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Presented at IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016, published in , pp. 1047-1053
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1034
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Super tall buildings are commonly controlled by earthquake in high seismicity area. Viscous dampers have been widely applied in seismic design of tall buildings to mitigate the seismic responses of...
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Author(s): (PhD, Senior Engineer, Department of Structural Engineering, Tongji University Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China)
(Tongji University, Shanghai, China)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016
Published in:
Page(s): 1047-1053 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 1047-1053
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2016
DOI: 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1034
Abstract:

Super tall buildings are commonly controlled by earthquake in high seismicity area. Viscous dampers have been widely applied in seismic design of tall buildings to mitigate the seismic responses of super tall buildings. The energy dissipation capacity of viscous damper system is highly related to the damper configuration. Mega-brace damper system is one of the deformation amplification configurations, which can amplify the story deformation under earthquake. The mega braces can be flexibly arranged according to the building brace configuration. The installation of mega-brace dampers will cause the stiffness loss of primitive stiff mega braces. The optimal placement of mega-brace dampers will comprehensively consider the maximizing of energy dissipation capacity and the minimizing of stiffness reduction. This paper proposes an optimal placement method of mega-brace dampers which can satisfy both requirements. A real super tall building project will be employed to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed optimal placement method for the mega-brace dampers.

Keywords:
tall buildings optimal placement mega-brace damper integrated seismic design