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Overview of Performance-Based Seismic Design of Building Structures in China

  • Li, Guo-Qiang;Xu, Yan-Bin;Sun, Fei-Fei
    • 국제초고층학회논문집
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    • 제1권3호
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    • pp.169-179
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    • 2012
  • The development history, the current situation and the future of the performance-based seismic design of building structures in China are presented in this paper. Firstly, the evolution of performance-based seismic design of building structures specified in the Chinese codes for seismic design of buildings of the edition 1974, 1978, 1989, 2001 and 2010 are introduced and compared. Secondly, in two parts, this paper details the provisions of performance-based seismic design in different Chinese codes. The first part is about the "Code for Seismic Design of Buildings" (GB50011) (edition 1989, 2001 and 2010) and "Technical Specification for Concrete Structures of Tall Building", which presents the concepts and methods of performance-based seismic design adopted in Chinese codes; The second part is about "Management Provisions for Seismic Design of Outof-codes High-rise Building Structures" and "Guidelines for Seismic Design of Out-of-codes High-rise Building Structures", which concludes the performance-based seismic design requirements for high-rise building structures over the relevant codes in China. Finally, according to those mentioned above, this paper pointed out the imperfections of current performance-based seismic design in China and proposed the possible direction for further improvement.

Dynamic Interrelationship between the Evolution of Structural Systems and Façade Design in Tall Buildings: From the Home Insurance Building in Chicago to the Present

  • Moon, Kyoung Sun
    • 국제초고층학회논문집
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2018
  • The emergence of tall buildings in the late $19^{th}$ century was possible by using new materials and separating the role of structures and that of non-structural walls from the traditional load-bearing walls that acted as both. The role of structures is more important in tall buildings than in any other building type due to the "premium for height". Among the walls freed from their structural roles, façades are of conspicuous importance as building identifiers, significant definers of building aesthetics, and environmental mediators. This paper studies dynamic interrelationship between the evolution of tall building structural systems and façade design, beginning from the early tall buildings of skeletal structures with primitive curtainwalls to the recent supertall buildings of various tubular and outrigger structures with more advanced contemporary curtainwalls.

Pushing the Boundaries of Mass Timber Construction and Building Codes

  • Dubois, Jean-Marc;Frappier, Julie;Gallagher, Simon;Structures, Nordic
    • 국제초고층학회논문집
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    • 제9권3호
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    • pp.261-271
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    • 2020
  • The 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBC) and the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) both include Tall Wood Buildings (TWB) and are hailed as documents responsible for the proliferation of Mass Timber construction. Mass Timber construction is critical to reducing the carbon footprint of the construction industry; a sector acknowledged as being one of the greatest contributors of global annual CO2 emissions. Origine, a 13-storey multi-residential building erected in 2017 in a previously unsuitable site, is currently the tallest all-wood building in North America. This article describes the challenges overcome by the designers and client as they engaged with code officials, building authorities, and fire-service representatives to demonstrate the life-safety performance of this innovative building. It also traces the development of the "Guide for Mass Timber Buildings of up to 12 Storeys" published in Quebec and how it has enabled other significant Tall Wood projects across North America.

마그네시아 인산염 시멘트를 사용한 보수용 초속경 모르타르의 특성에 관한 실험적 연구 (An Experimental Study on the Properties of Ultra Rapid Hardening Mortar Using Magnesia-Phosphate Cement)

  • 안무영;정상진
    • 한국건축시공학회지
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    • 제7권4호
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2007
  • Building structures are generally large in size and have a long life, and the construction of such structures requires the investment of a huge amount of money and social infrastructure. Furthermore, building structures are closely related to people's life. Recently, however, the rapid development of society has been worsening air pollution, which is in turn accelerating the degradation of building structures. Thus, the safety of building structure is emerging as a critical issue. To cope with this problem, the government enacted "The Special Act on Safety Control for Infrastructure" but we need engineers' higher concern over the maintenance and reinforcement of existing structures. Recently researches are being made actively on repair mortar using ultra rapid hardening cement for recovering the performance of structures. The present study conducted an experiment on the basic physical properties of ultra rapid hardening mortar for repairing and reinforcing building structures using magnesia cement and mono-ammonium phosphate. In the experiment, we changed the water-cement ratio and carried out replacement at different ratio of MAP/MgO(%). We used retarder to have working life, and made comparative analysis through evaluating working life and fluidity and measuring strength by age.

수정된 능력스펙트럼을 이용한 건축구조물의 내진성능평가 (Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures Using Modified Capacity Spectrum)

  • 최원호
    • 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지진공학회 2000년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Spring
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    • pp.267-274
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    • 2000
  • Current seismic design codes for building structures are based on the method which can provide enough capacity to satisfy objected performance level and exactly evaluate the seismic performance of buildings. The capacity spectrum method using the nonlinear static(pushover) analysis is becoming a popular tool for evaluating the seismic performance of existing and new building structures. By means of a graphical procedure capacity spectrum method esimates the performance level of structure by comparing the capacity of structure with the demand of earthquake ground motion on the structure. In the method the relation between base shear estimated by a nonlinear static analysis and horizontal displacement is used. Capacity spectrum is usually expressed as what represent the responses of the equivalent single degree of freedom (ESDOF) system for the building structures. However there are some problems in converting procedures into ESDOF system which include not considering the effect of higher modes of structures. The objective of this paper is to compare and verify existing methods and suggest the modified capacity spectrum for seismic performance evaluation of building structures.

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점탄성 감쇠기가 설치된 고층건물의 효율적인 진동제어 (Efficient Control of Tall Buildings with Viscoelastic Dampers)

  • 김상태
    • 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국지진공학회 1997년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집 Proceedings of EESK Conference-Fall 1997
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 1997
  • Viscoelastic dampers have been successfully applied in building structures to reduce vibration by wind and earthquakes. It may be inefficient or be uneconomical that viscoelastic damper is installed at each story of building structures. Although the number of viscoelastic dampers is reduced, if viscoelastic dampers are installed at only suitable places in building structures, vibration would be controlled by efficiency. In this paper, responses of building structures according to the situation of viscoelastic dampers are compared. Then efficient and economical arrangements of viscoelastic dampers are proposed.

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새로운 GFRP접합 시스템을 이용한 멤브레인 파빌리옹 (The mobile and modular GFRP-membrane-structure with the new innovative connection system)

  • ;박돈우;;황경주
    • 한국공간구조학회지
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2005
  • Currently, the structural material, namely glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) is focused on innovative structure due to lightness, excellent workability and noncorrosive characteristics, etc. However, the lack of GFRP connection technology produces only an imitation of steel and wood structures. This uses univentive design principles as well as unsuitable material applications, causes tons of surplus of materials to be wasted, and results in uneconomical structures, because the characteristics between steel and GFRP are completely different. Thus, this research develops the new, innovative GFRP connection system with considerations of the characteristics of GFRP and adopts it to a mobile und modular membrane pavilion.

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Conceptual design of buildings subjected to wind load by using topology optimization

  • Tang, Jiwu;Xie, Yi Min;Felicetti, Peter
    • Wind and Structures
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.21-35
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    • 2014
  • The latest developments in topology optimization are integrated with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the conceptual design of building structures. The wind load on a building is simulated using CFD, and the structural response of the building is obtained from finite element analysis under the wind load obtained. Multiple wind directions are simulated within a single fluid domain by simply expanding the simulation domain. The bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) algorithm with a scheme of material interpolation is extended for an automatic building topology optimization considering multiple wind loading cases. The proposed approach is demonstrated by a series of examples of optimum topology design of perimeter bracing systems of high-rise building structures.

How does the knowledge level affect the seismic retrofit cost? The case study of a RC building

  • Miano, Andrea;Chiumiento, Giovanni;Formisano, Antonio;Prota, Andrea
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제82권5호
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    • pp.557-569
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    • 2022
  • The retrofit of existing structures in high seismic zones is a crucial issue in the earthquake engineering field. The interest of the research community is particularly high for the structures that do not respect current seismic codes and present structural deficiencies such as poor detailing and lack of capacity design provisions. A reinforced concrete (RC) school building is used as case study to show the influence of different knowledge levels on the seismic retrofitting cost assessment. The safety assessment of the case study building highlights deficiencies under both vertical and seismic loads. By considering all the possible knowledge levels defined by the Italian such as by the European codes in order to derive the mechanical properties of the school building constitutive materials, the retrofit operations are designed to achieve different seismic safety thresholds. The retrofit structural costs are calculated and summed up to the costs for in-situ in tests. The paper shows how for the case study building the major costs spent for a large number of in-situ tests allows to save a consistent amount of money for retrofit operations. The hypothesis of demolition and reconstruction of the building is also compared in terms of costs with all the analyzed retrofit options.