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- Title
- Dynamic Behavior of a Pedestal Base Multistory Building.
- File
- PB286650.pdf
- Author(s)
- Stephen, R. M.; Wilson, E. L.; Bouwkamp, J. G.; Button, M.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Research Applied to National Needs., July 1978, 156 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-78/13
- Abstract
- As a part of a continuing program to evaluate the dynamic response of actual structures and to accumulate a body of information on the dynamic properties of structures, especially when these structures have novel design features, a dynamic test program was conducted on the forty-two story Rainer Tower Building. Equally important, this program is aimed at evaluating the accuracy of computer modeling techniques and programs by comparing the experimentally derived dynamic response data with analytically predicted values. The dynamic tests of the building included both a forced vibration study and an ambient vibration study. These results are compared and in general show very good correlation. A mathematical computer model of the Rainer Tower was formulated, and the results of the analysis are presented and compared to the experimental results. Again, in general, the results compare very favorably.
- Keywords
- Rainer Tower Building; Skyscrapers; TABS computer program; Forced vibration; Seattle (Washington); Earthquake engineering; Dynamic response; Frequency response; Resonant frequency; Computer aided analysis; Finite element analysis; SAP computer program; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis