• Wind and Structures
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2019

Wind-adaptable design (WAD) provides a new method for super-tall buildings to lessen design conflicts between architectural prerequisites and aerodynamic requirements, and to increase the efficiency of structural system. Compared to conventional wind-resistant design approach, the proposed new method is to design a building in two consecutive stages: a stage in normal winds and a stage during extreme winds. In majority of time, the required structural capacity is primarily for normal wind effects. During extreme wind storms, the building's capacity to wind loads is reinforced by on-demand operable flow control measures/devices to effectively reduce the loads. A general procedure for using WAD is provided, followed by an exploratory case study to demonstrate the application of WAD.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.505-517
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• 2009

Synchronous wind-induced pressures, measured in wind-tunnel tests on model buildings instrumented with hundreds of pressure taps, are an invaluable resource for designing safe buildings efficiently. They enable a much more detailed, accurate representation of the forces and moments that drive engineering design than conventional tables and graphs do. However, the very large volumes of data that such tests typically generate pose a challenge to their widespread use in practice. This paper explains how a wavelet representation for the time series of pressure measurements acquired at each tap can be used to compress the data drastically while preserving those features that are most influential for design, and also how it enables incremental data transmission, adaptable to the accuracy needs of each particular application. The loss incurred in such compression is tunable and known. Compression rates as high as 90% induce distortions that are statistically indistinguishable from the intrinsic variability of wind-tunnel testing, which we gauge based on an unusually large collection of replicated tests done under the same wind-tunnel conditions.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.349-356
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 만 또는 도서지역과 같이 지형적으로 차폐되어 외해로부터 직접적인 파랑전파가 어렵고 바람에 의해 발달된 파랑의 영향이 클 것으로 판단되는 지역에 사용되는 기존 만내설계파 모델의 문제점을 분석하고 개선방안을 검토하였다. 기존 만내설계파 모델은 바람을 고려할 수 있고 타 모델에 비해 복잡한 지형에도 비교적 간편하게 사용할 수 있는 장점을 지니는 반면 인근 대형 구조물 또는 지형에 의한 파랑의 회절 및 반사 등의 고려가 곤란하다. 기존모델의 단점을 극복하기 위해 회절 및 반사각, 수심변화 등의 고려가 가능한 개량된 만내설계파 모델을 현지에 적용하고 기존 모델과 비교 검토한 결과 구조물 주변에서 설계파고의 값에 신뢰성이 향상되는 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 개선된 만내설계파 모델은 차폐되어 있는 해역에서 항만 구조물 설계 시 기존의 방법에 비해 보다 고정도의 설계파를 산정하는 방법으로서 이용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2015

Damped outrigger systems have been proposed as a novel energy dissipation system to protect tall buildings from severe earthquakes and strong wind loads. In this study, semi-active damping devices such as magnetorheological (MR) dampers instead of passive dampers are installed vertically between the outrigger and perimeter columns to achieve large and adaptable energy dissipation. Control performance of semi-active outrigger damper system mainly depends on the control algorithm. Fuzzy logic control algorithm was used to generate command voltage sent to MR damper. Genetic algorithm was used to optimize the fuzzy logic controller. An artificial earthquake load was generated for numerical simulation. A simplified numerical model of damped outrigger system was developed. Based on numerical analyses, it has been shown that the semi-active damped outrigger system can effectively reduce both displacement and acceleration responses of the tall building in comparison with a passive outrigger damper system.