Date of Award
2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Engineering Science
Program
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Abstract
The tuned liquid damper (TLD) is a proven and an increasingly popular auxiliary device for mitigating the dynamic effects induced by wind loading on tall buildings. During a dynamic loading event, the water inside a TLD will slosh against the end walls of the tank, thereby imparting a force approximately anti-phase to the motion of the building. The current study uses a multi-modal TLD system to reduce the resonant torsional responses of a real high-rise building. The building is sensitive to torsion in the first two vibration modes; therefore, a unique TLD system is designed to damp these two modes by displacing the tanks away from the center of mass of the building. The TLD system is capable of reducing the serviceability responses to an acceptable level. In addition, the current study demonstrates the possible reduction in wind loading experienced by the building. The reduced wind loading leads to a 16.9% reduction in the cost of steel reinforcement in the concrete shear walls. Furthermore, the robustness of the TLD system is evaluated and practical TLD design issues are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Ross, Andrew S., "APPLICATION OF TUNED LIQUID DAMPERS TO MITIGATE WIND- INDUCED TORSIONAL MOTION" (2009). Digitized Theses. 4233.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/digitizedtheses/4233