Kunshan Xintiandi Super Tall Building is 142 meters high, with 3 floors underground and 31 above ground. Its structural system composed of concrete-filled steel tube frame core tube. The elastoplastic time-history analysis the building was carried out by using PKPM-SAWS to analyze overall index whole structure under large earthquake, mechanical performance key components earthquake analyzed, lo...

Tall buildings are ubiquitous in major cities and house the homes and workplaces of many individuals. However, relatively few studies have been carried out to study the dynamic characteristics of tall buildings based on field measurements. In this paper, the dynamic behavior of the Green Building, a unique 21-story tall structure located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

The paper presents the results of a feasibility study conducted in the area of learning conceptual design rules governing the selection of wind brac­ ing components in steel skeleton structures of tall buildings. The study's objectives were to compare decision rules produced by different learning systems using the same body of examples, and to formally verify these rules using the overall empir...

Vertical conduit tapering is proposed as an effective mechanism to almost eliminate the increase in hydraulic resistance with increased height. Despite this potential role, very little is known about its changes during ontogeny. Here, conduit tapering and stem morphology of young/small and old/tall individuals of Acer pseudoplatanus in the field, as well as 3-yr-old grafted trees from both age ...

The successful construction of tall buildings requires effective construction management based on various quantitative data. The recent development of ubiquitous sensor networks (USNs) enables massive amounts of data to be collected in real-time. However, the application of USN-based data acquisition systems to repetitive tasks on typical floors of tall buildings can be inefficient, because thi...

In tall and very tall reinforced concrete buildings, long term column shortening due to creep and shrinkage affects the service life behavior of structural elements. Creep-induced column shortening depends on the axial stress level in the column cross sections and on its evolution in time. For this reason, the construction method and phases must be taken into account as a key factor in defining...

Progressive collapse is a kind of failure in which whole or large part of a structure collapse when a local damage occurs and distributes to other parts. Many researchers focus on the column removal analysis and study of the structure behavior under effect of gravity loads, so these investigations are mostly carried out on the tall building. Earthquake inspections indicate structural element ca...