Vibration Monitoring and Control of the Built Environment

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1100

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Interests: damping; earthquake engineering; isolation; semi-active control; structural control; tuned mass damper; vibration; vibration absorber
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Dear Colleagues,

Vibration monitoring and control of the built environment is crucial to guarantee the specified vibration comfort in buildings and footbridges due to wind, traffic and pedestrian excitations, the structural safety of buildings and bridges during seismic events, and the envisaged lifetime of the built environment in order to decelerate further global warming. To reach these goals, the further development of intelligent sensor networks and anti-vibration devices such as tuned mass dampers, fluid viscous dampers, hysteretic steel dampers, elastomeric dampers, shock transmission units, base isolators, expansion joints and combinations of these devices is needed. This Special Issue, which will be published in the Applied Sciences and Buildings journals, aims to collect research exploring the recent advances in these fields of research and development. This Special Issue therefore addresses the following topics (though this list is not exhaustive):

  • Intelligent monitoring and analysis of structural vibrations.
  • Further developed passive, semi-active, active and adaptive tuned mass dampers, hydraulic dampers, isolators, bearings and expansion joints.
  • Latest developments in vibration, earthquake, wind and noise engineering.
  • Latest developments in the developments of new materials needed in for structural dampers, isolators, bearings and joints.
  • Multi-physics modelling of civil engineering structures, including the modelling of the environmental conditions such as wind (CFD), climate, earthquake, soil–structure interaction, etc.
  • Probabilistic and risk-based modelling and control of the built environment (buildings, bridges, streets, chimneys, flag poles, etc.).

Submissions in the form of both original research and review articles are welcome. Contributions with experimentally validated models and methods are highly appreciated.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Applied Sciences

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Felix Weber
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • damper
  • earthquake engineering
  • friction damping
  • hysteretic damping
  • isolator
  • monitoring
  • negative stiffness
  • soil structure interaction
  • structural control
  • structural dynamics
  • tuned mass damper
  • vibration absorber
  • wind engineering

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Article
Role of the Subgrade Reaction Modulus in the Design of Foundations for Adjacent Buildings
by Ali Khosravifardshirazi, Babak Tavana, Akbar A. Javadi, Ali Johari, Shima Gholzom, Behnaz Khosravifardshirazi and Mohammad Akrami
Buildings 2024, 14(6), 1804; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14061804 - 14 Jun 2024
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This paper examines the effects of soil–structure and structure–soil–structure interactions in the design of foundations for adjacent concrete buildings, which are located on soft soils. The study employs an elasto-plastic model through static (quasi-dynamic) analysis using the direct finite element method by applying [...] Read more.
This paper examines the effects of soil–structure and structure–soil–structure interactions in the design of foundations for adjacent concrete buildings, which are located on soft soils. The study employs an elasto-plastic model through static (quasi-dynamic) analysis using the direct finite element method by applying earthquake loads in one time step. Two concrete buildings, one with 6 stories and another with 12 stories, were modelled and numerically analysed using ANSYS. The foundations of these two buildings were analysed separately and compared when they were assumed to be adjacent to each other. The designs of the buildings’ foundations were evaluated independently and in comparison with each other to determine the impact of these interactions. The results indicated that accounting for the effects of both interactions increases the total deformation of the foundations. Additionally, the study found that adjusting the subgrade reaction modulus values (Ks) for different sections of the foundation can be a practical method to address both interaction effects simultaneously. This method also optimizes the weight of reinforcement material (Wr) by reducing it by 15% and modifying the positions and quantities of reinforcements used and considering various subgrade reaction modulus values in foundation design. Full article
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