A short remark on the modelling of a three-story shear-building structure

Abstract

In this note, some remarks on the modelling of a multi-degree-of-freedom system, a three-story shear-building structure, is presented. The modelling of a mechanical system is one of the most important aspects in engineering and physics, since is crucial for the understanding of the system. Besides, the model, if properly made, can be also useful to predict some phenomenon that might appear on the system itself and is unknown to researchers. In many situations, the system studied is simplified as a physical model, where the main characteristics regarding the dynamics of the system are defined, such as inertia and stiffness. This facilitates the obtainment of the mathematical model, which is used to obtain quantitative results that can be checked in some experimental procedure. This work presents the modeling of a shear-building structure, where the equations of motion and the natural frequencies of oscillation are obtained. The numeric values are validated by the comparison with experimental results from a previous work.