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    The document describes two buildings, Building A and Building B, that differ in their lateral stiffness. Building A is subjected to a lateral step force. Two schemes are proposed to connect the buildings: 1) a rigid link, and 2) an elastic spring. The tasks are to: 1) Find the natural frequency and mode shape of the combined rigid-linked structure. 2) Find the maximum displacement of Building A. 3) Find the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the combined elastic-spring-linked structure.

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    The document describes two buildings, Building A and Building B, that differ in their lateral stiffness. Building A is subjected to a lateral step force. Two schemes are proposed to connect the buildings: 1) a rigid link, and 2) an elastic spring. The tasks are to: 1) Find the natural frequency and mode shape of the combined rigid-linked structure. 2) Find the maximum displacement of Building A. 3) Find the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the combined elastic-spring-linked structure.

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    NUST Institute of Civil Engineering (NICE)

    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (SCEE)


    National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

    MS Structural Engineering Code/Course: CE - 809

    Semester: Fall 2021 Course Title: Structural Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3+0 Pre-requisites: Nil

    TOTAL MARKS: 30 TIME ALLOWED: 1 HOUR


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    Figure 1 shows two single-story buildings—Building A and Building B. Each building consists of a rigid
    concrete roof and two identical supporting columns. The roof mass and the lateral stiffness of each
    building are shown in Figure 1. The lateral stiffness is the combined stiffness of two columns. The lateral
    stiffness of Building A is quite low when compared with that of Building B. The critical damping ratios of
    both buildings are 0.01.

    As shown in Figure 1, Building A is subjected to a lateral step force 𝐹(𝑡). The force-time history is shown
    in Figure 2. Before the application of 𝐹(𝑡), the building has no initial motion.

    Let’s assume that the maximum lateral displacement and shear force determined against the given 𝐹(𝑡)
    are too high, and we need to find a way to reduce the responses. Two schemes are proposed for this
    purpose. The first scheme is to connect Building A and Building B by a rigid link as shown in Figure 3.
    The second scheme is to connect Building A and Building B by an elastic spring as shown in Figure 4.
    The stiffness of this spring is also given in Figure 4.

    By connecting the low-stiffness Building A with the high-stiffness Building B, it is expected that the lateral
    displacement and column base shear in Building A due to the lateral step force 𝐹(𝑡) will be reduced. But
    it is not clear which scheme will be more effective in reducing the responses. You are therefore requested
    to find out the followings:

    For the first scheme—rigid link,

    Task 1: Find the natural frequency and vibration mode shape of the combined structure. [05 Marks].

    Task 2: Find the maximum lateral displacement of Building A. [05 Marks].

    For the second scheme—flexible link,

    Task 3: Find the natural frequencies and vibration mode shapes of the combined structure. [20 Marks].

    In all cases, it can be assumed that the modal damping ratio of any vibration mode is 0.01.
    Given:

    The response 𝑢(𝑡) of any given SDF system against the step impulse shown in Figure 2 can be
    approximately determined as follows. Please ignore the effect of damping while determining the
    response using this expression.

    𝑃𝑜
    𝑢(𝑡) = (1 − cos 𝜔𝑡)
    𝑘

    Where 𝑚 = mass of the SDF system

    𝑘 = Stiffness of the SDF system

    𝜔 = Natural frequency of the SDF system

    𝑃𝑜 = Peak amplitude of the step impulse.


    THE END
    Solution:

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