Wind Performance Based Design for High-Rise Buildings

Authors

Alireza MohammadiFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Civil Engineering

First Advisor's Name

Atorod Azizinamini

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Second Advisor's Name

Peter Irwin

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Third Advisor's Name

Larry Griffis

Third Advisor's Committee Title

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Fourth Advisor's Name

Emil Simiu

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

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Fifth Advisor's Name

Arindam Gan Chowdhury

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Sixth Advisor's Name

Ioannis Zisis

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Seventh Advisor's Name

Ali Mostafavi

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Keywords

Performance Based Wind Engineering, Wind Testing, Wind Nonlinear Response History Analysis, Incremental Dynamic Wind Analysis

Date of Defense

11-9-2016

Abstract

The rapid growth of high-rise high-density urban areas in coastal and near coastal, hurricane-prone cities has been observed globally and in the United States in recent decades. Favored by modern urban growth and planning policies, this trend is expected to accelerate in future. Recent climate change studies suggest a significant increase in the destructiveness of hurricanes in past 30 years by both increases in lifetime and intensity of hurricanes. Current prescriptive wind design approach does not provide transparent methods and criteria to reliably quantify the performance of buildings as well as the functional requirements necessary to accommodate large populations during extreme wind. Since this approach primarily intends to keep the structural system essentially elastic, the more efficient design may be achievable by allowing controlled inelasticity in structural components. All these facts put a great emphasis on using a reliable wind design and assessment approach evidently describing the performance of high-rise building to wind loads beyond the current design wind loads.

This dissertation presents the development of a wind performance-based engineering approach and its practical implementation for three, 47-, 40- and 30-story steel moment frame high-rise buildings. In this study, the nonlinear dynamic responses of the buildings to different wind hazard levels were evaluated by developing 3D nonlinear finite element models and utilizing a wind incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) approach. The wind loading for the 47-story building was measured by conducting wind pressure testing on a scaled rigid model at the Wall of Wind (WOW) facility at Florida International University. For two other buildings wind loads were acquired using TPU Aerodynamic Database. Using the IDA results and adopting available wind performance criteria, a wind performance assessment approach was developed representing the estimated performance levels as a function of the basic wind speed. Three types of wind performance were evaluated: structural component performance; cladding performance to wind-induced shear deformation; and serviceability motion comfort performance. This evaluation indicated remarkable lateral capacity associated with allowing controlled structural nonlinearity, in contrast to considerations required to assure acceptable serviceability and non-structural (e.g. cladding) performances.

Identifier

FIDC001201

ORCID

orcid.org/0000-0002-6374-6729

Recommended Citation

Mohammadi, Alireza, "Wind Performance Based Design for High-Rise Buildings" (2016). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3032.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3032