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Chicago Full-scale Monitoring Project Confirms Building Design
The initial results of the Chicago Full-scale Monitoring
Project are in. As reported in the November 2005 issue of Engineering
News Record, the study shows that U.S. design assumptions are generally
valid in predicting building sway. To date, the three skyscrapers featured
in the study are performing aspreviously predicted by wind tunnel tests
and computer-based structural analysis models, although they have not
yet faced a severe storm.
Ahsan
Kareem, director of Natural Hazard Lab (NatHaz) and the Robert Moran
Professor of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences, led the study in collaboration
with Tracy Kijewski-Correa, the Rooney Family Assistant Professor
of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences. The professors also worked with
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), a leading architecture firm, and Canada’s
Boundary Layer Wind
Tunnel Laboratory.
This study, the only one of its kind, received funding from the National Science
Foundation. Researchers are currently seeking more funding to expand the study.
During the course of the study, three Chicago buildings were fitted with
accelerometers on their top floors. The accelerometers are able to detect
the each skyscraper’s motion along the perpendicular axes, as well
as any twisting movement. Data from the instruments was transmitted to
a communication hub in Chicago’s SOM building and then relayed
by Ethernet to the University of Notre Dame where it was carefully analyzed.
Results indicated that the buildings are responding in accordance with
their design, even though they were built when scale-model testing and
computer modeling techniques were not as advanced as they are today.
NatHaz, which coordinated the study at the University of Notre Dame,
was created in 2000 to quantify the load effects caused by natural hazards
on structures, such as winds, waves, and earthquakes. Researchers
in the lab also seek to develop innovative strategies to mitigate and
manage the effects of these hazards.
For more information on NatHaz and the Chicago Full-scale Monitoring Project, please visit the website at:
http://www.nd.edu/~dynamo/Projects/fullscalemonitoringproject.htm.
Copyright 2006. University of Notre Dame.
