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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 225

Structural Design of a High-Rise Building using Tuned Viscous Mass Dampers installed across Three Consecutive Storeys

M. Ogino and T. Sumiyama

Structural Engineering Division, Nihon Sekkei Inc., Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, Japan

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Ogino, T. Sumiyama, "Structural Design of a High-Rise Building using Tuned Viscous Mass Dampers installed across Three Consecutive Storeys", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 225, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.225
Keywords: seismic control, tuned viscous mass damper, damper location across consecutive storeys, robustness..

Summary
This paper reports on the structural design of a 37-storey high-rise building that contains conference rooms (2nd to 5th floors), offices (6th to 37th floors), and residences (6th to 12th floors), with a maximum height of 200 m and a total floor area of 175,000 meters squared. The building incorporates a newly developed seismic control device: a tuned viscous mass damper. In this study, we searched for an effectively controlled structure subject to all the design criteria and found that a tuned viscous mass damper would be effective; we investigated the application of this device and its design theory to our project. We confirmed that the most effective method to ensure high performance of the seismic vibration control system was to tune the tuned viscous mass dampers to the first fundamental mode and install each one across three consecutive storeys in the transverse direction of the building, which has lower horizontal stiffness. This approach kept the cost low and the energy absorbing capacity high.

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