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Wind and Structures
  Volume 18, Number 4, April 2014 , pages 457-471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2014.18.4.457
 


International high-frequency base balance benchmark study
John D. Holmes and Tim K.T. Tse

 
Abstract
    A summary of the main results from an international comparative study for the high-frequency base balance is given. Two buildings were specified – a \"basic\" and an \"advanced\" building. The latter had more complex dynamic response with coupled modes of vibration. The predicted base moments generally showed good agreement amongst the participating groups, but less good agreement was found for the roof accelerations which are dominated by the resonant response, and subject to measurement errors for the generalized force spectra, to varying mode shape correction techniques, and different methods used for combining acceleration components.
 
Key Words
    base-balance; building; tall; vibration; wind-loading
 
Address
John D. Holmes: JDH Consulting, Mentone, Victoria 3194, Australia
Tim K.T. Tse: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST, Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong
 

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