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Novel Design of Tall Building Structures Based on Modern Resilience and Sustainability Performance Criteria

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 1957

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Evangelos Efthymiou

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Institute of Metal Structures, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: steel structures; standardization; structural aluminum; advanced analysis procedures; resilient design; high-rise buildings; sustainability assessment; refurbishment; wind energy applications
Dr. Vassilis Papanikolaou

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Lab of R/C and Masonry Structures, School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: reinforced concrete; finite elements; computational engineering; earthquake engineering; experimental methods; embedded systems; structural monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the construction of tall buildings has significantly expanded as a result of material technology and scientific developments, combined with increased societal and financial needs for housing and commercial space in modern metropoles. According to the accepted terminology, tall buildings are typically defined as those exceeding 50 m in height, while super-tall refers to heights ranging from 300 m to 600 m and mega-tall to heights over 600 meters. In view of their special features, they are characterized by long periods of vibration and multi-modal response, while when it comes to earthquake resistance, nonlinear analysis procedures are employed, and innovative seismic resistant schemes are developed. Recently, intense research has been carried out towards the application of resilience and sustainability concepts in tall building design, addressing their failure–collapse impact and climate change effect, respectively.

This Special Issue is dedicated to current developments regarding novel design approaches of tall buildings (covering tall/super-tall/mega-tall types) that consider resilient and sustainable performance criteria.

We invite original contributions on new research, case studies, projects, reviews, and state-of-the-art discussions related to the design of steel, concrete, and composite steel–concrete tall buildings. Submissions may concern novel approaches in analysis methods and design practices, theoretical or applied research in the fields of civil engineering, building construction, and architecture engineering, accounting for contemporary resilience concepts and sustainability requirements.

We welcome papers on the following and related topics:

  • Seismic design concepts—earthquake resistant/mitigation systems;
  • Current codification provisions-specifications in tall building design;
  • Wind loading effects;
  • Finite element modeling and nonlinear analysis procedures;
  • Performance-based design of tall buildings;
  • Impact of building envelope—curtain wall contribution/resilience;
  • Sustainable design of tall buildings;
  • High-performance materials in tall building design and construction;
  • Digital twin technology;
  • Structural optimization of tall buildings;
  • Case studies.

Dr. Evangelos Efthymiou
Dr. Vassilis Papanikolaou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • tall, super-tall, mega-tall buildings
  • codification-specifications
  • new methods and analysis procedures
  • resilient design principles
  • performance-based seismic design
  • innovative structural systems
  • sustainable performance
  • energy efficiency
  • case studies

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Unsteady Numerical Simulation of Two-Dimensional Airflow over a Square Cross-Section at High Reynolds Numbers as a Reduced Model of Wind Actions on Buildings
by Aggelos C. Karvelis, Athanassios A. Dimas and Charis J. Gantes
Buildings 2024, 14(3), 561; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14030561 - 20 Feb 2024
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Airflow over a square cross-section at high Reynolds numbers and different angles of incidence is investigated with the aim of providing deeper insight into wind actions on elongated structures and, in particular, tall buildings. The flow around bluff bodies is characterized by separation [...] Read more.
Airflow over a square cross-section at high Reynolds numbers and different angles of incidence is investigated with the aim of providing deeper insight into wind actions on elongated structures and, in particular, tall buildings. The flow around bluff bodies is characterized by separation at sharp corners, as well as possible flow reattachment at side surfaces. The alternate shedding of vortices is also generated in the wake of bluff bodies due to the unsteady nature of flow separation. Two-dimensional (2D) URANS numerical simulations were conducted in order to model transient flow and examine wind actions on a square used as a model of a typical cross-section of a tall building far from its roof and the ground. For validation purposes, the study’s numerical results on drag and lift coefficients, Strouhal numbers, as well as pressure coefficient distribution were found to be in good agreement with available experimental and numerical results in the literature for relatively low Reynolds numbers. The numerical study was then extended to higher Reynolds numbers, approaching values that are pertinent for wind flow around buildings, thus addressing the lack of such results in the literature. On the basis of these results, the impact of Reynolds numbers and angles of incidence on drag and lift coefficients, as well as the pressure coefficient distribution along the walls of the cross-section, is highlighted. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Design of Tall Building Structures Based on Modern Resilience and Sustainability Performance Criteria)
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Failure Probability and Economic Loss Assessment of a High-Rise Frame Structure under Synthetic Multi-Dimensional Long-Period Ground Motions
by Zheng Zhang and Yunmu Jiang
Buildings 2024, 14(1), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14010252 - 16 Jan 2024
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Multiple research studies and seismic data analyses have shown that multi-directional long-period ground motion affects crucial and intricate large-scale structures like oil storage containers, long-span bridges, and high-rise buildings. Seismic damage data show a 3–55% chance of long-period ground motion. To clarify, the [...] Read more.
Multiple research studies and seismic data analyses have shown that multi-directional long-period ground motion affects crucial and intricate large-scale structures like oil storage containers, long-span bridges, and high-rise buildings. Seismic damage data show a 3–55% chance of long-period ground motion. To clarify, the chance of occurrence is 3% in hard soil and 83% in soft soil. Due of the above characteristics, the aseismic engineering field requires a realistic stochastic model that accounts for long-period multi-directional ground motion. A weighted average seismic amplification coefficient selected NGA database multi-directional long-period ground motion recordings for this study. Due to the significant low-frequency component in the long-period ground motion, this research uses empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to efficiently decompose it into a composite structure with high- and low-frequency components. Given the above, further investigation is needed on the evolutionary power spectrum density (EPSD) functions of high- and low-frequency components. Analyzing the recorded data will reveal these functions and their corresponding parameters. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is needed to simulate samples of high- and low-frequency components in different directions. These samples can be combined to illustrate multi-directional long-period ground motion. Representative samples exhibit the seismic characteristics of long-period multi-directional ground motion, as shown by numerical examples. This proves the method’s engineering accuracy and usefulness. Moreover, this study used incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) to apply seismic vulnerability theory. This study investigated whether long-period ground motions in both x and multi-directional directions could enhance the seismic response of a high-rise frame structure. By using this method, a comprehensive seismic economic loss rate curve was created, making economic loss assessment clearer. This study shows that multi-directional impacts should be included when studying seismic events and calculating structure economic damages. Full article
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