Effects of high modes on the wind-induced response of super high-rise buildings

For super high-rise buildings, the vibration period of the basic mode is several seconds, and it is very close to the period of the fluctuating wind. The damping of super high-rise buildings is low, so super high-rise buildings are very sensitive to fluctuating wind. The wind load is one of the key loads in the design of super high-rise buildings. It is known that only the basic mode is needed in the wind-response analysis of tall buildings. However, for super high-rise buildings, especially for the acceleration response, because of the frequency amplification of the high modes, the high modes and the mode coupling may need to be considered. Three typical super high-rise projects with the SMPSS in wind tunnel tests and the random vibration theory method were used to analyze the effect of high modes on the wind-induced response. The conclusions can be drawn as follows. First, for the displacement response, the basic mode is dominant, and the high modes can be neglected. Second, for the acceleration response, the high modes and the mode coupling should be considered. Lastly, the strain energy of modes can only give the vibration energy distribution of the high-rise building, and it cannot describe the local wind-induced vibration of high-rise buildings, especially for the top acceleration response.

On internal resonance analysis of a double-cable-stayed shallowarch model with elastic supports at both ends

In previous research on the nonlinear dynamics of cable-stayed bridges,boundary conditions were not properly modeled in the modeling.In order to obtain the nonlinear dynamics of cable-stayed bridges more accurately,a double-cable-stayed shallow-arch model with elastic supports at both ends and the initial configuration of bridge deck included in the modeling is developed in this study.The in-plane eigenvalue problems of the model are solved by dividing the shallow arch(SA)into three partitions according to the number of cables and the piecewise functions are taken as trial functions of the SA.Then,the in-plane one-toone-to-one internal resonance among the global mode and the local modes(two cables’modes)is investigated when external primary resonance occurs.The ordinary differential equations(ODEs)are obtained by Galerkin’s method and solved by the method of multiple time scales.The stable equilibrium solutions of modulation equations are obtained by using the NewtonRaphson method.In addition,the frequency-/force-response curves under different vertical stiffness are provided to study the nonlinear dynamic behaviors of the elastically supported model.To validate the theoretical analyses,the Runge-Kutta method is applied to obtain the numerical solutions.Finally,some interesting conclusions are drawn.