Design of passive interconnections in tall buildings subject to earthquake disturbances to suppress inter-storey drifts

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 744; no. 1; pp. 12063 - 12073
• Main Authors: Yamamoto, K, Smith, MC
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Chains; Earthquake dampers; Earthquakes; Graphical representations; Interconnections; Iterative methods; Multistory buildings; Passive control; Physics; Resonant frequencies; Seismic response; Springs (elastic); Stiffness; Tall buildings; Transfer functions

This paper studies the problem of passive control of a multi-storey building subjected to an earthquake disturbance. The building is represented as a homogeneous mass chain model, i.e., a chain of identical masses in which there is an identical passive connection between neighbouring masses and a si...