Latest Contributions to Building Structural Analysis

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 2366

Special Issue Editors

School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
Interests: collapse of structure; structural analysis; modular structure; modular high-rise building; infill wall
College of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Interests: pulse-like ground motions; vertical ground motions; structural dynamic analysis; seismic resilience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid development of materials, construction and industrial technologies leads to significant innovations in building systems and load-bearing components. The buildings that have adopted these innovative systems or components may have distinct structural performances under various loading scenarios, which need to be comprehensively verified. Moreover, the adoption of new structural design tools, design concepts and novel modeling and computational methods also offers many opportunities and challenges for structural analysis, which need to be further investigated.

This Special Issue of Buildings, entitled “Latest Contributions to Building Structural Analysis” aims to exchange ideas and knowledge on a great variety of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Structural performances of buildings;
  • Innovative structural components in building structural behaviors;
  • Structural analysis of buildings under natural hazards or extreme loading scenarios;
  • New building design tools, modeling and computation methods;
  • Building maintenance and materials;
  • Construction technology and engineering;
  • Intelligent buildings or computer-aided design and simulations;
  • Structural health monitoring;
  • Seismic resilience of communities and cities;
  • Multi-hazard engineering.

Original research articles, case studies and reviews are warmly welcome in this special issue.

Dr. Sidi Shan
Dr. Cuihua Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • structural analysis
  • numerical method
  • structural performance
  • structural innovation
  • modular structure
  • extreme loading
  • seismic resilience
  • intelligent buildings
  • earthquake engineering
  • collapse

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Numerical Prediction Method for Vibration Characteristics of Steel-Framed Autoclaved Lightweight Aerated Concrete Floor Structures
by Haruki Mizunuma, Takumi Asakura, Yasuhiko Ishiwatari, Takayuki Shiraishi and Fumiaki Satoh
Buildings 2022, 12(11), 1910; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12111910 - 07 Nov 2022
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The prediction of floor vibration is of great importance from the viewpoint of accurate prediction of a room’s sound environment. Despite the advantage of low cost, because the density and elasticity of autoclaved lightweight aerated concrete (ALC) panels are much lower than those [...] Read more.
The prediction of floor vibration is of great importance from the viewpoint of accurate prediction of a room’s sound environment. Despite the advantage of low cost, because the density and elasticity of autoclaved lightweight aerated concrete (ALC) panels are much lower than those of reinforced-concrete panels, ALC floor structures suffer from weak sound insulation and require better sound insulation design. However, there have been not yet been any studies of sound insulation improvement of steel-framed ALC floor structures, and it is novel to clarify how the floor-impact-sound characteristics are affected by the panel size and beam structure. In this paper, a finite element analysis was applied to the vibration simulation of an ALC floor structure on a steel-framed structure. The validity of the proposed method was firstly confirmed by comparison with measurement results. Furthermore, by using the validated simulation method, the effect of the arrangement of ALC panels and their supporting steel-framed structure on the vibration characteristics of the whole structure was investigated. It was found that the vibration performance was improved when the number of beams was increased and adjacent ALC floor panels were bonded to each other. Full article
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