Many buildings in the Tohoku and Kanto area were strongly shaken during the Tohoku-oki earthquake on 11 March 2011. Soon after the earthquake, the Japan Society of Seismic Isolation (JSSI) established committees to investigate the performance of structures where modern seismic protection methods were used. Since response-control technologies are relatively new, few systems had been validated with actual earthquakes. Generally, the various buildings performed well, and there were no failures of superstructures of base-isolated or supplementally damped buildings. Failures of numerous expansion joints and lead dampers in base-isolated buildings are described. Acceleration records of both base-isolated and supplementally damped buildings are analyzed and their seismic performance characteristics are discussed.
As buildings have become higher, it is likely to find the wind loads that is equal to or even greater than the design seismic loads. Therefore, it is important to estimate responses of high-rise buildings under fluctuating wind force. This paper presents contribution rate of higher mode wind response of multi-mass system for high-rise buildings by using a modal analysis in elasto range. Then, it shows that the wind responses are usually separated into the low and high frequency components, and the wind responses can be expressed as sum of them. The agreement between the predicted value based on coupling of two components and results of time-history analysis was finally confirmed.
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