The increase in the population is at an exponential rate, and available land form of irregular shapes. That why shapes are very commonly built. Wind load increases with respect to height, so wind evolution necessary for such high-rise structures. forces majorly depend on plan's cross-sectional shape. Therefore, shape, investigation needed tall buildings. This paper demonstrates a detailed study...

Horizontal forces, both from wind and seismic actions, govern in most cases the structural design of tall buildings. An accurate assessment magnitude horizontal actions initial project stages provides a valuable information for typology choice preliminary sizing members. This study develops analytical evaluation forces considering dynamic effects this type buildings to be applied stages. The re...

Atmospheric boundary layer winds experience two types of effects due to friction at the ground surface. One effect is the increase of the wind speeds with height above the surface. The second effect, called the Ekman layer effect, entails veering the change of the wind speed direction as a function of height above the surface. In this study a practical procedure is developed within a databaseas...

This paper focuses on the benchmark problem application regarding the vibration control of tall buildings under cross wind excitation. The building under consideration is the 76-story, 306-m tall reinforced concrete office tower proposed for the city of Melbourne, Australia. The adopted control scheme consists of an active tuned mass damper ATMD where the control action is achieved by a fuzzy l...

Myron Goldsmith (1918-96) was a unique figure in the development of tall building design. He successfully blended the roles of architect, engineer and teacher throughout his tenure at Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) and in the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Indeed, many of the projects supervised by Goldsmith and his colleagues, to include the pre-em...

This paper investigates the application of Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method for the optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) employed for high-rise structures including Soil Structure Interaction (SSI). The model is a 40-story building, and Newmark method is utilized for the structure response to Bam earthquake data. The objective is to decrease both maximum displacement and accelerati...