Special Issue "Tall Buildings"
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A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2012)
Special Issue Editor
Guest Editor
Dr. Kyoung Sun Moon
School of Architecture, Yale University, 180 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
E-Mail: kyoung.moon@yale.edu
Phone: +1 203 436 8983
Fax: +1 203 432 7175
Interests: tall buildings; integrated design; structural engineering; sustainable design; structural motion control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tall buildings, with their global symbolic power and economic benefits in dense urban land use, are a worldwide architectural phenomenon today. Due to their large scale and extreme height, the interaction between technology and architecture has been very dynamic in tall buildings. This special issue of the Buildings journal invites authors who can contribute quality articles on various architectural and technological issues of tall buildings and their synergistic integrations.
Today’s architecture can be best understood only through the recognition of pluralism, and various directions are prevalent in architectural design of tall buildings in conjunction with their diversified functions. In recent years, tall buildings have become much taller, and the importance of optimal structural design is more significant in taller structures due to the premium for heights. The issues of vertical transportation, fire and life safety are very critical in tall buildings, especially after September 11 of 2001. Because of their enormous scale, tall buildings are constructed with an abundant amount of resources and consume lots of energy during occupancy. This special issue also invites articles on various sustainable design strategies for tall buildings. Today more than ever, sustainability is one of the most important building design issues to save our limited resources.
The subject of this this special issue is very current in both the design and technology circles in architecture. With the prevalent emergence of tall buildings in major cities throughout the globe and concerns that this building type has generated, more investigative work into the role of tall buildings and their technologies is crucial in academia and building industry.
Dr. Kyoung Sun Moon
Guest Editor
Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. For the first couple of issues the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.
Keywords
- Tall Buildings
- Architecture
- Structural Systems
- Façade Systems
- Wind Engineering
- MEP Engineering
- Vertical Transportation
- Sustainable Design
- Fire and Life Safety
- Construction and Materials
- Design Integration
- Urban Design
Published Papers (2 papers)
 Buildings 2012, 2(2), 43-62; doi:10.3390/buildings2020043
Received: 13 February 2012; in revised form: 21 March 2012 / Accepted: 9 April 2012 / Published: 16 April 2012
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Buildings 2012, 2(4), 384-423; doi:10.3390/buildings2040384
Received: 26 July 2012; in revised form: 5 September 2012 / Accepted: 10 September 2012 / Published: 28 September 2012
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Submitted Papers
Type of Paper: Article
Title: Skyscraper Design: Overview of Motion Mitigation Systems for Tall Steel and Composite Structures
Authors: Kayvan Madani Nejad 1 and Chung C. Fu 2
Affiliations: 1 Larson Koenig Architects, 2107 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria, VA 22301, USA; E-Mail: kmn@lkarchitects.com
2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, Martin Hall, College Park, MD, USA ; E-Mails: ccfu@umd.edu
Abstract: Recently there has been an increasing demand for high-rise buildings and skyscrapers in urban areas all around the world. Record heights and novel architectural forms have created new challenges for motion mitigation and damping of soaring tall structures due to lateral loads, with wind and earthquake being the predominant concerns. Studies indicate that flexible steel structures induce discomfort for the inhabitants in terms of excessive perceived motion, acceleration and vibration. This paper offers an overview of the existing and new innovative methods to mitigate structural response of steel and composite tall structures, including recent practical examples around the world. Relationship between the building form and its aerodynamic response will also be examined.
Keywords: damping; aerodynamic structures; tuned mass dampers; sky scrapers: wind load; earthquake; tuned liquid dampers; hybrid dampers; active mass dampers; high-rise architecture
Last update: 25 September 2012