Wind Loads and Building Response Predictions Using Force Balance Techniques
The use of force balance techniques to measure mean and dynamic wind loads on models of buildings and structures is discussed. Advantages of using force balance techniques over estimating...
Stochastic Response of Structures with Appendages Containing Fluids
Following a perturbation technique a procedure is developed to compute the modal properties of a system consisting of a fluid containing appendage attached to a multi-degree-of-freedom...
Cladding Design for Tall Buildings
In the past twenty years, glass cladding has emerged as a popular and economic building material. Its use in tall buildings which are constructed in high-risk wind and seismic geographical...
The Atlantic Palace?Part II The Application of Wind Tunnel/Force Balance Techniques
A relatively new approach for determining overall wind-induced loads on a structure is described. This force balance technique is economical and flexible, and able to provide predictions...
The Atlantic Palace: Part I Structural System Selection Based on Wind Tunnel Testing
The location of the structure in a coastal area susceptible to high winds, the irregular shape and height of the building and the desire for more accurate wind loading and acceleration...
Structural Dynamics in Hurricanes and Tornadoes
The random fluctuations of wind gusts produce dynamic interaction with structures. The objectives of this paper are to identify distinguishing differences in hurricane and tornado winds...
Experimental Studies, Structural Design and Full-Scale Measurements for the Columbia Seafirst Center
The Columbia Seafirst Center is a 76-story office tower located in downtown Seattle, Washington. It rises to a height of about 940 feet above ground and is the world's 10th...
Comparison of Predicted and Measured Dynamic Behavior of Allied Bank Plaza
Structural engineering aspects of a monitoring program to measure Allied Bank Plaza tower's dynamic response to wind are presented. In particular, field data developed during...
Damping Systems to Limit the Motion of Tall Buildings
Two types of damping systems have been used successfully in building applications - the Tuned Mass Damper, and Viscoelastic Damping Units. In the past, Tuned Mass Dampers were used in...
Design of Viscoelastic Dampers for Columbia Center Building
To reduce the dynamic response of a building with a given height and plan area to wind load, aside from inherent damping of the building, the designer has a few options available to him/her....
Innovations in the Design of Electrical Transmission Structures
New concepts are being advanced for the design of electrical transmission structures. The papers in this book cover the following: weather-element loading conditions, structural options,...
Structural Design of Container Cranes
The shipping industry uses container cranes to move cargo containers on and off ships. Container cranes have characteristics common to all crane structures, but many characteristics are...
Dynamic Response of Structures
The primary goal of the third specialty conference on the dynamics of structures was to provide a forum for dialogue between engineers conducting experimental tests and those developing...
Building Motion in Wind
The trend towards higher structural efficiency and hence lower cost has resulted in a generation of lighter and more flexible buildings with a lower inherent capacity for energy dissipation...
Postmodern Engineering
Momentum Place is a postmodern skyscraper in Dallas designed by architects John Burgee and Philip Johnson. The Datum-Moore Partnership, structural engineers, designed the structural system...
Simplified Prediction of Storm Surge on an Open Coast Using a Microcomputer
Computer-generated wind fields have a flexibility that is not available with standard manual procedure; i. e. different illustrative concepts can be given a trial run at low cost. A spreadsheet...
Utopia Under Glass
We stand within sight of the day when our reserves of fossils fuel will be inadequate to maintain the type of energy inefficient cities we have grown used to. This exercise in urban planning...
A Study of Exterior Facades?Problems and Solutions
The quality of the exterior facades of a building is important to maintaining aesthetic image, protecting the interior environment from infiltration of heat, cold, moisture, wind, and...
Interactive Microcomputer Analysis and Design of Light Gage Steel Roof Systems
A hinderance to the widespread acceptance of the cold-formed steel roof Z-purlin in conventionally engineered buildings is due to the lack of a useful and efficient analysis and design...
Technology Assessment for Hydrogen from Renewable Energy
This paper is a preliminary report on an assessment of technologies for hydrogen production from renewable resources, and an investigation of the problems and issues involved in assimilating...
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