Shaking table model test on Shanghai World Financial Center Tower

The height of 101‐storey Shanghai World Financial Center Tower is 492m above ground making it possible the tallest building in the world when completed. Three parallel structural systems including mega‐frame structure, reinforced concrete and braced steel services core and outrigger trusses, are combined to resist vertical and lateral loads. The building could be classified as a vertically irregular structure due to a number of stiffened and transfer stories in the building. Complexities related to structural system layout are mainly exhibited in the design of services core, mega‐diagonals and outrigger trusses. According to Chinese Code, the height 190 m of the building clearly exceeds the stipulated maximum height of for a composite frame/reinforced concrete core building. The aspect ratio of height to width also exceeds the stipulated limit of 7 for seismic design intensity 7. A 1/50 scaled model is made and tested on shaking table under a series of one and two‐dimensional base excitations with gradually increasing acceleration amplitudes. This paper presents the dynamic characteristics, the seismic responses and the failure mechanism of the structure. The test results demonstrate that the structural system is a good solution to withstand earthquakes. The inter‐storey drift and the overall behaviour meet the requirements of Chinese Design Code. Furthermore, weak positions under seldom‐occurred earthquakes of seismic design intensity 8 are found based on the visible damages on the testing model, and some corresponding suggestions are proposed for the engineering design of the structure under extremely strong earthquake. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

高层建筑风振监测的实践与初步分析

叙述了高层建筑风振监测的基本方法及监测过程，以大量的实际监测数据为基础，初步总结出了高层建筑的风振规律。     

促进绿色建筑在中国的发展——美国和欧盟的经验借鉴

建筑是能源消耗大户,也是导致环境污染与气候变化的原因之一.推动绿色建筑的发展,是实现低碳经济与可持续发展的重要路径.当前,中国已经颁布了一些法律法规以及通过信息工具——绿色建筑认证等制度措施来推动绿色建筑的发展,但是实践中存在一些问题,相关制度设计也不够成熟.美国以及欧盟在绿色建筑方面的立法与实践经验相对比较丰富.中国可以借鉴这些国家的一些成功经验,采取一些措施促进绿色建筑的发展,如提高人们对绿色建筑的认识,设计出更多样化的激励工具等等.     

建筑物防雷装置设计技术评价

根据GB50057-2010《建筑物防雷设计规范》的规定,文章从防雷装置设计技术评价的要点、评价报告制作的文本格式、评价的结论及技术要点等三个方面全面阐述建筑物防雷装置设计技术评价的全过程,明确了建筑物防雷设计的项目,总结和归纳了各项目在GB50057-2010中的依据和规定。     

高层建筑结构抗震设计中鞭梢效应的分析

将钢筋混凝土结构离散为能模拟梁、柱、墙抗震性能的单元，采用串并联刚片系振动模型，体现空间各构件的协同工作，采用改进的Wilson-θ法。对鞭梢效应在高层建筑结构抗震中的影响作详细分析，做到合理利用鞭梢效应，从而可以解决高层建筑物中层间位移起决定性作用的问题，达到合理、经济的效果。     

Road Network and Damaged Buildings in Urban Areas: Short and Long-term Interaction

In this paper, a model able to analyse the seismic behaviour of road network in urban areas, considering interaction between buildings and roads is presented. Damage to buildings and short-term countermeasures, such as propping, can affect roads and even block them, reducing capacity of the road network. Two successive phases are considered. In the first, immediately after the seismic event, emergency services have to reach the relevant buildings. Here, the network topology is of interest. In the second, in the long term, network capacity is not yet completely restored and network demand has to account for displaced people due to unusable buildings. In this case, road serviceability is of interest. In order to consider uncertainties on building behaviour, a probabilistic approach is developed and the network is analysed by means of Monte Carlo simulation. The methodology is applied to the municipality of Potenza (southern Italy) evaluating in the short term, the probability of strategic buildings are not connected and, in the long term, road serviceability.     

Laboratory tests of steel simple torsionally unbalanced models

The objective of this work is to obtain estimations of the amplification factors α and δ used for torsion design of buildings, from experiments. For this study, simple one‐storey torsionally unbalanced (TU) steel models were considered. Models consisted of a deck supported on four columns with a selected arrangement of hinges at column ends. Two theoretical structural eccentricities (e = 0.05 and 0.15) were considered. Models were excited with a simple long‐period pendulum consisting of a hanging platform with a forced‐vibration generator on it. Eight models were tested at several excitation levels (frequencies and force magnitudes) in both ranges of behaviour: elastic and inelastic. Experiments were conducted at three frequency ratios of excitation. Registered accelerations of the pendulum platform indicate that the experimental set‐up leads to excitations that resemble narrow‐band seismic ground motions. Frame shear force estimations, based on accelerations recorded at both deck sides, indicate that torsion design factors (α and δ) depend on eccentricity. Estimations of frame shears based on measurements indicate that for normalized eccentricities e ? 0.025, the amplification α can be between 2 and 3; while δ factor resulted between 0.0 and 1.6. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

淤泥质地层地铁隧道施工地表沉降预测及分析

南京地铁珠江路站-鼓楼站区间,穿越软~流塑状淤泥质粉质粘土地层和众多地面建筑物及密集地下管线。软~流塑状淤泥质地层压缩性高、强度低、易产生蠕动,围岩无自稳能力。在施工中采用大管棚+小导管超前预注浆+掌子面注浆隧道预支护方案及台阶法开挖与钢架、网、喷混凝土支护的综合措施。为了科学决策、安全施工,根据实际工况进行计算模拟、预测地表沉降,进行施工量测,实现了安全顺利施工,建筑物完好无损。     

考虑结构抗力因素的建筑物地震保险纯费率厘定方法

利用震害期望损失率方法对考虑结构抗力因素的建筑物地震保险纯费率的厘定方法作了分析,并采用该厘定方法得到了两个工程实例的砖结构、钢筋混凝土结构的建筑物地震保险的纯费率.     

高应变动力试桩法在大桩检测中的应用效果

通过实例表明高应变动力试桩法在高层建筑大桩检测中取得令人满意的应用效果.