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Building Tutorials

Building Vibration Standards: building.pdf

Transamerica Pyramid Design: pyramid.pdf

United Facilities Criteria (UFC) Structural Load Data, US Department of Defense: ufc_3_310_01.pdf

Terminal 5, London Heathrow: The new control tower: Heathrow_tower.pdf

C. Gordon, Generic Vibration Criteria for Vibration-Sensitive Equipment: Gordon-SPIE99.pdf

Vibration of a Shear Frame Building: shear_building.pdf

See also Earthquake Engineering Page

Building Damping & Tuned Mass Dampers

Structures Incorporating Tuned Mass Dampers: TMD_Table.pdf

Yukio Tamura, Damping in Buildings, Tokyo Polytechnic University, The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program: damping_buildings_lecture.pdf

Kijewski and Kareem, Analysis of full-scale data from a tall building in Boston: damping estimates: Boston.pdf

Livanos, Raffan, and Coltrona, Active Control of Vibration in Tall Buildings VibrationTall Buildings.pdf

Ji Young Kim, Dae Young Kim, and Sang Dae Kim, Evaluations of the dynamic properties for a residential tall building in Korea: Korea_building_damping.pdf

Damping in Tall Buildings and Towers: tall_building_damping.pdf

Bridge Tutorials

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure: tacoma.pdf

Womack and Halling, Forced Vibration Testing of the I-15 South Temple Bridge: temple_bridge.pdf

D. Taylor: Damper Retrofit of the London Millennium Footbridge- A Case Study in Biodynamic Design: dt_damper.pdf

Transportation & Construction-Induced Vibration

Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment: FTA_Noise_and_Vibration_Manual.pdf

Transportation and Construction-Induced Vibration Guidance Manual, California Department of Transportation: CDT_TC.pdf

Henwood & Haramy, Vibrations Induced by Construction Traffic: A Historic Case Study: 043henwood_construction_vibrations.pdf

Software

Fundamental Frequency of a Tall Building:	building.exe	-
Generate a time history to satisfy the Generic Vibration Criterion VC-E curve	vce_generate.exe	vce_generate.cpp
Calculation of a velocity spectrum from an acceleration or velocity time history, per the Colin Gordon Generic Vibration Criterion.	velox.exe	velox.cpp

Related Newsletters

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August 2002	The London Millennium Bridge Vibration Vibration of the Human Eye
March 2002	Moonquakes Suspension Footbridge Resonance Induced by Marching
February 2002	Niigata Earthquake 1964: Soil Liquefaction The Bay of Fundy Resonance Lake Geneva Seiche The Earth’s Natural Frequency
January 2002	The Citicorp Building Tuned Mass Damper Seismic Response of the Olive View Hospital
November 2001	Seismic Waveform Review The World Trade Center Disaster: A Shock Vibration Perspective "Good Vibrations" May Prevent Bone Loss in Space
September 2001	The X-43A Flight Failure The Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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