Flexible housing resolves the fundamental conflicts between the long-standing structure and the evolving demands.We propose a computational method of optimizing the structural layout of high-rise residential buildings...Flexible housing resolves the fundamental conflicts between the long-standing structure and the evolving demands.We propose a computational method of optimizing the structural layout of high-rise residential buildings.Chinese high-rise apartment buildings have widely employed shear wall-frame structure in which one big room or multiple small rooms could occupy the same span.Fitting multiple floor plans into a fixed sparse scheme of shear walls and columns is feasible.We developed a computational framework to seek flexible structural schemes.A building scheme consists of a circulation core,shear walls,columns,and boundaries.The computer program automatically adapts floor plans to any drawn or generated scheme.Based on a large dataset of apartment layouts,the number of apartments that fit into a building scheme statistically reflects the flexibility of the scheme.If many hypothetical plans can fit into a wallframe structure in computer simulation,this structure could probably support several generations of unknown plans.Such a data-driven computational method provides the possibility of creating a one-to-many mapping between permanent structure and evolving apartment plans.展开更多
With consideration of a high-rise coupled building system,a flexible beams-based analytical model is setup to characterize the dynamic behavior of the system.The general motion equation for the two beams interconnecte...With consideration of a high-rise coupled building system,a flexible beams-based analytical model is setup to characterize the dynamic behavior of the system.The general motion equation for the two beams interconnected by multiple viscous/visco-elastic dampers is rewritten into a non-dimensional form to identify the minimal set of parameters governing the dynamic characteristics.The corresponding exact solution suitable for arbitrary boundary conditions is presented.Furthermore,the methodology for computing the coefficients of the modal shape function is proposed.As an example,the explicit expression of the modal shape function is derived,provided only one damper is adopted to connect the adjacent buildings.Finally,to validate the proposed methodologies,three case studies are performed,in which the existence of the overdamping and the optimal damping coefficient are revealed.In the case of using one damper in connecting two similar buildings,the estimating equations for the first modal damping ratio are formulated.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52278008).
文摘Flexible housing resolves the fundamental conflicts between the long-standing structure and the evolving demands.We propose a computational method of optimizing the structural layout of high-rise residential buildings.Chinese high-rise apartment buildings have widely employed shear wall-frame structure in which one big room or multiple small rooms could occupy the same span.Fitting multiple floor plans into a fixed sparse scheme of shear walls and columns is feasible.We developed a computational framework to seek flexible structural schemes.A building scheme consists of a circulation core,shear walls,columns,and boundaries.The computer program automatically adapts floor plans to any drawn or generated scheme.Based on a large dataset of apartment layouts,the number of apartments that fit into a building scheme statistically reflects the flexibility of the scheme.If many hypothetical plans can fit into a wallframe structure in computer simulation,this structure could probably support several generations of unknown plans.Such a data-driven computational method provides the possibility of creating a one-to-many mapping between permanent structure and evolving apartment plans.
文摘With consideration of a high-rise coupled building system,a flexible beams-based analytical model is setup to characterize the dynamic behavior of the system.The general motion equation for the two beams interconnected by multiple viscous/visco-elastic dampers is rewritten into a non-dimensional form to identify the minimal set of parameters governing the dynamic characteristics.The corresponding exact solution suitable for arbitrary boundary conditions is presented.Furthermore,the methodology for computing the coefficients of the modal shape function is proposed.As an example,the explicit expression of the modal shape function is derived,provided only one damper is adopted to connect the adjacent buildings.Finally,to validate the proposed methodologies,three case studies are performed,in which the existence of the overdamping and the optimal damping coefficient are revealed.In the case of using one damper in connecting two similar buildings,the estimating equations for the first modal damping ratio are formulated.
