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Towards estimating higher-mode effects on the seismic response of tall-buildings

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In this paper, the dynamic response of two 21-story buildings was studied to assess the influence of higher modes in their structural performance. While the first building was structured with ductile moment-resisting steel frames and exhibits a global shear-dominated lateral deformation, the second one uses ductile concentrically braced steel frames and has a global bending-type response. Buildings were virtually located in a soft-soil condition of the lake-bed zone in Mexico City. Nonlinear pushover and dynamic analyses were performed through OpenSees on a detailed 3D-model with plasticity spread along the elements. For this purpose, a set of accelerograms recorded during the Mexico Earthquake of September 19, 2017, were selected, and adjusted to represent the actual seismic hazard at the site. A frequency-domain system identification technique was applied to identify the dynamic characteristics of buildings through a moving-window Fourier analysis, that allows for the estimation of the contribution of higher-modes to their overall nonlinear dynamic response. A ratio of the elastic spectral pseudo-accelerations corresponding to the first two vibration modes is proposed to quantitatively anticipate cases and conditions for which the second mode adversely affects the structural performance of upper stories. The discussion includes a comparative study from the lateral global response of the analyzed models.

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The master fellowship granted to the third author by the National Science and Technology Council of Mexico (Conacyt) is gratefully acknowledged. Centro de Instrumentación y Registro Sísmico (CIRES) recorded the ground motions during the September 19th, 2017 earthquake.

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Tapia-Hernández, E., Terán-Gilmore, A. & Gama-Contreras, C. Towards estimating higher-mode effects on the seismic response of tall-buildings. Bull Earthquake Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-024-01908-x

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