This paper investigates the seismic performance of two adjacent buildings connected by viscous dampers. Three types of damper placement are discussed, including installing dampers within a single building, connecting two buildings at the same floor l...
The excavation of deep foundation pits has a significant impact on the stability of adjacent buildings. On the basis of a deep foundation pit project in Xi’an, China, the deformation of a diaphragm wall and the settlement and deformation of an...
Various cases of two adjacent multi-story buildings with different numbers of floors and equal or unequal foundation levels under earthquake loading and considering soil-structure interaction (SSI) are investigated. A two-dimensional model for each c...
Seismic behavior of tall buildings depends upon the dynamic characteristics of the structure, as well as the base soil properties. To consider these factors, the equations of motion for a multi-story 3D building are developed to include irregularity...
In this study, the difference between the displacements of structures (relative displacement) is selected as the control parameter in pounding problems. During an earthquake, an increase in the amplitude of relative displacement between adjacent stru...
Taking the foundation pit of the Suzhou Chunshenhu Road Expressway Reconstruction Project as an example, the excavation process of the foundation pit was numerically simulated using a three-dimensional finite element method. The measured data and sim...
The presence of adjacent tall buildings significantly affects the mechanical response of water-rich strata during metro station excavations. This study focuses on the deep construction pit excavation project of the Houhu Fourth Road Metro Station on...
The Yellow River Basin features a unique geographical environment with challenges like seawater erosion and soft soil. In this context, the construction of foundation pits can significantly impact the settlement of adjacent structures. Grounded in a...
Under the effect of strong earthquakes, collisions or excessive inter-story displacements may occur between adjacent building structures to the extent that the building structure is damaged. The traditional seismic measures for these structures can n...
Under the action of an earthquake, the adjacent building structure will have a large displacement and even cause damage to the structure. Structure displacement can be suppressed by adding a tuned viscous mass damper (TVMD) and negative stiffness amp...
Energy consumption modeling in buildings is crucial for calculating energy performance indices and establishing criteria for energy labeling. Different countries utilize diverse approaches to calculate these indices based on energy efficiency regulat...
Currently, new housing in city centers is more and more often developed on small plots of land, or existing buildings on such plots are rebuilt to such an extent that only their façade walls remain. In both cases, as a rule, a deep excavation...
Hyperspectral remote sensing can obtain both spatial and spectral information of ground objects. It is an important prerequisite for a hyperspectral remote sensing application to make good use of spectral and image features. Therefore, we improved th...
The section of Jialingjiang Road Station to Xiangjiang Road Station along Qingdao Metro Line 13 is located in Qingdao, China. All of them show obvious characteristics, being soft on the top and hard on the bottom, and the interval tunnel is faced wit...
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 thr...
The structural pounding caused by an earthquake may damage structures and lead to their collapse. This study is focused on the pounding between two adjacent asymmetric structures with different dynamic properties resting on the surface of an elastic...
The susceptibility of plants to burn raises concerns about fire hazard that green roofs may pose to buildings. Main concerns relate to cases when such roofs are poorly maintained or stressed by drought conditions which leads to drying out of plants a...
In urban areas, tunneling works inevitably interfere with the adjacent buildings. In the preliminary design stage, designers usually do not inspect buildings adjacent to the construction sites, because these activities are often too expensive. This p...
Based on the inspection results of existing structures, this study conducts a safety evaluation of buildings adjacent to a 17.2–23.2 m deep metro station. Stratum loss induced by the deformation of the foundation pit retaining structure leads t...
Earthquake-induced structural pounding may cause major damages to structures, and therefore it should be prevented. This study is focused on using an artificial neural network (ANN) method to determine the sufficient seismic gap in order to avoid col...
To address the challenges of deep excavations adjacent to existing buildings—such as restricted anchor installation angles, construction disturbances, and excessive deformations—a novel pile–anchor intersecting retaining system is p...
Wind and/or earthquake-imposed loadings on two dynamically similar adjacent buildings cause vigorous shaking that can be mitigated using energy dissipating devices. Here, the vibration response control in such adjacent structures interconnected with...
The best approach to avoid collisions between adjacent structures during earthquakes is to provide sufficient spacing between them. However, the existing formulas for calculating the optimum seismic gap preventing pounding were found to provide inacc...
Controlling the ground settlement and building deformation triggered by shield tunnelling, particularly within water-rich strata, poses a significant engineering challenge. This study conducts a finite element (FE) analysis focusing on the ground set...
The excavation of a foundation pit will break the original stress balance and affect the surface settlement of the natural foundation of adjacent buildings, so deformation control is very important. In this paper, numerical simulation results of the...
This study explores the effectiveness of shared tuned mass damper (STMD) in reducing seismic pounding of adjacent buildings. The dynamics of STMDs is explored through numerical simulations of buildings idealized as single and multiple degree of freed...
Selecting optimal measurement points to capture maximum vertical vibration levels induced by metro systems on adjacent buildings is a crucial yet often overlooked task. In this study, an on-site vibration test and simulation analysis of a building ne...
With rapid urbanization, traffic growth has accelerated in some cities in China. Due to strict urban construction land utilization policies, many high-rise apartment buildings have been constructed adjacent to expressways. To better understand the im...
The design of vibration control systems for the seismic protection of closely adjacent buildings is a complex and challenging problem. In this paper, we consider distributed multi-actuation schemes that combine interbuilding linking elements and inte...
This paper presents the study of the pulsating characteristics of three adjacent high-rise buildings A, B, and C under typhoon ‘Moranti’ (2016) based on the measurement of the actual top wind speed. The studied pulsating characteristics i...
The dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI) involving three adjacent structures with pile-raft foundations arranged along the east-west direction in a viscoelastic half-space is numerically studied under earthquake excitation. The directi...
In order to study the influence of tunnel volume loss on adjacent framed buildings with different shallow foundations, this paper carried out physical model experiments with two common types of footings (isolated and strip footings) under different w...
The optimal design methodology for a Maxwell–Coulomb friction damper is proposed to minimize the resonant vibration of dynamic structures. The simple Coulomb friction damper has the problem of zero or little damping effect of the vibration of t...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the transport phenomena of smoke flow and vertical temperature distribution in a 21-story stairwell with multiple fire locations and openings. A large eddy simulation (LES) method was used to model the smoke flow...
In order to ensure the safety and stability of the existing old masonry structure houses in the process of dewatering and excavation of the super deep foundation pit of the subway, the support form of a water stop curtain combined with bored cast-in-...
Sandwich panels, widely used in factory and warehouse construction, are highly susceptible to fire due to their fragile surfaces and polyurethane-insulated cores. Such structures facilitate rapid fire spread, significantly increasing the risk of exte...
In a complex urban environment, the impact of building demolitions by blasting on the structural integrity of nearby metro tunnels is critical. This study systematically analyzed the blasting and demolition process of a building adjacent to a metro t...
Inclined–vertical framed retaining walls were recently developed and successfully adopted in engineering practice. However, relevant empirical methods for the evaluation of ground movements due to excavation have not been established. This stud...
Both experimental and theoretical methods were proposed to assess the effects of adjacent, parallel, and symmetric exterior wall structures on the combustion and flame spreading characteristics of rigid polyurethane (PUR) foam insulation. During the...
Buildings are responsible for around 30% and 42% of the consumed energy at the global and European levels, respectively. Accurate building power consumption estimation is crucial for resource saving. This research investigates the combination of grap...
Infectious diseases have profoundly impacted global health and daily life. To control virus transmission, countries worldwide have implemented various preventive measures. A critical pathway for infection spread is cross-infection within households,...
During the excavation process of shield tunneling, it is inevitable that the surrounding soil mass is disturbed, which will affect the adjacent structures. This paper proposes a general framework for the impact of shield tunneling construction on exi...
Accurate estimation of urban land surface temperature (ULST) is critical for studying urban heat islands, but complex three-dimensional (3D) structures and materials in urban areas introduce significant adjacency effects into remote sensing retrieval...
During a seismic movement, each wave field incoming to a foundation by reflecting from the surroundings causes amplification. Therefore, the seismic response of any building is affected by both the topography and the adjacent building. In this study,...
Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in historic urban areas of European countries are generally clustered in an aggregate configuration and are often characterized by façade walls mutually interconnected with adjacent ones. As a result, the s...
The extraction of UAV building point cloud contour points is the basis for the expression of a three-dimensional lightweight building outline. Previous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) building point cloud contour extraction methods have mainly focused...
Building pattern recognition is fundamental to a wide range of downstream applications, such as urban landscape evaluation, social analyses, and map generalization. Although many studies have been conducted, there is still a lack of satisfactory resu...
Methods for the generation of indoor geographic information system (GIS) models based on building information modelling (BIM) models can promote the analysis and application of indoor GIS, avoiding the complexity of traditional indoor space collectio...
Seismic excitations may lead to collisions between adjacent civil engineering structures, causing major damage. In this paper, an effective equation for calculating the gap size index is proposed so as to provide the optimum separation distance preve...
With the continuous development of indoor positioning technology, various indoor applications, such as indoor navigation and emergency rescue, have gradually received widespread attention. Indoor navigation and emergency rescue require access to a va...
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