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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Volume 132, Issue 10, Pages 1509-1523Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9445(2006)132:10(1509)
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Tall buildings are one of the few constructed facilities whose design relies solely upon analytical and scaled models, which, though based upon fundamental mechanics and years of research and experience, has yet to be systematically validated in full scale. In response to this need, through the combined efforts of members of academe, a design firm and a commercial wind tunnel testing laboratory, a program was initiated to monitor the full-scale response of representative tall buildings and compare this to the predicted response from wind tunnels and finite-element models used commonly in design. As part of this monitoring program, in situ periods and damping ratios over a range of response amplitudes are also being evaluated. This paper provides an overview of the monitoring program, which includes three tall buildings in the city of Chicago, details their instrumentation and modeling, and provides an example of the full-scale response data analyses being conducted.
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