2014 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications

Study on Seismic Performance of a Super High-rise Building Based on the Rare

Earthquake

Xiaohu Meng1, Zaigen Mu1, a, Guoyue Liu1 and Xiangyong Zhang2

1
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
2
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Co., Ltd., Beijing 100045, China
icmtma@vip.163.com

AbstractWith the development of the architecture science,
the super high-rise building in highly seismic region is growing,
and its height is also increasing. Designing new kind of super-
rise structure system, and checking its safety and reliability
are the tasks for structure engineers to challenging. This paper
assumes that in the highly seismic region, takes giant
framework super-tall structures as example, and tests the
deformation, stress and damage conditions of the structure
under seismic affection. This structure system is consisted of
mega steel frame and steel plate shear wall core tube, by
setting up outside cylinder conversation truss and huge brace,
the steel amount is decreasing effectively, in the condition of
ensuring the overall stiffness to resist lateral force. The
analysis result shows: In the effect of rare earthquake, the
outside cylinder frame forms the hinge mechanism gradually,
which play a good effect of energy consumption, Shear wall
concrete damage seriously. In the condition of considering the
elastoplastic material, the maximum interlayer displacement
angle of the structure satisfies the 1/100 limitation requirement,
the structure meets the dont collapse under the rare
earthquake fortification criterion.
structure system is giant frame - core tube, the plane of the
structure is square. Bottom dimensions of the structure is
78m78m, middle size is 54m54m, and slightly enlarged
up from the middle to the top, but the top size is smaller than
bottom size, approximately 69m69m.
The exterior wall thickness of reinforced concrete core
tube gradually change from 1200mm to 300mm by first floor
to the 101 floor, from 102 floor to 108 floor, the thickness of
the wall increase from 300mm to 400mm, the thickness of
the interior wall changes gradually from 500mm to 300mm,
from the first floor to the top. In order to improve the axial
compression ratio of the bottom wall, the ductility of
reinforced concrete and reduce the thickness of the wall and
weight of the structure, the interior and exterior wall from
first floor to 57 floor, the interior wall from first floor to
55floor use the steel plate shear wall. The concealed
columns of remaining floors are embraced with steel. The
structure lateral force, structure model and resistance system
are shown in fig. 1fig. 3.

Keywordshighly seismic region; mega frame system; super

high-rise; dynamic elastoplastic

I. INTRODUCTION
The region with a seismic intensity above 8 (including
8) is called the high intensity earthquake zone. Due to the
large seismic effect, making the requirements of energy
dissipation capacity, reason- able layout of the structure,
design parameters of component are more stringent. In the
design of high- rise structure, in order to ensure the structural
safety of the lateral resistant system, gradually formed super
high-rise structure system such as frame-tube, frame-core Figure 1. Structure lateral force Figure 2. Structure model
tube, tube in tube and undled tube.
In the structural design of super high-rise, structure
system not only have an important influence on the security
and economic of the structure, but also have a significant
impact on the use function and space form of the structure.
This paper analyzes the dynamic elastoplastic of a super
high-rise building based on the rare earthquake, to verify the
reliable of the super high-rise building.
II. PROJECT OVERVIEW
The project is located at an earthquake zone with 8
degrees and 0.20g, the height of the structure is 528m Figure 3. Resistance system
(including 7 underground floors and 108 ground floors). The

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 III. ESTABLISH THE STRUCTURAL MODEL
The ABAQUS software is used to analysis the dynamic
elastic-plastic time history. The structure units used in the
modeling process.
Trapezium or triangle cut integral shell unit: used to
simulate the shear wall of core tube, coupling beam and floor.
The reinforcement in shear walls and floor were simulated
by embedding steel.
IV. THE SEISMIC WAVE INPUT AND RESPONSE
SPECTRUM ANALYSIS
The seismic fortification intensity of project site is 8,
design basic seismic acceleration value of 0.2g, the first (a)Modal 1, T1=7.19s
seismic group, construction site category belongs to site,
characteristic period of 0.35s, buildings for seismic
fortification category B.
There are three seismic wave, including two natural
waves and an artificial wave, using the primary and
secondary direction input (X, Y direction in turn as the
directions of primary and secondary) as the input of the
dynamic elastoplastic analysis, three direction input peak
than followed by 1:0.85:0. 65(principal direction: secondary
directions: vertical), damping ratio is 4.5%.
The base shear of structure and the response spectrum for
each selected wave is showed in Table 1, the response
spectrum use 8 degrees 0.2g, the maximum horizontal
earthquake influence coefficient value 0.90, characteristic
period take 0.40s, damping ratio is 4.5%, regardless of (b) Modal 2, T2=7.16s
period reduction.
As can be seen from the results of the four groups of
wave, the minimum base shear of X major direction is 80%
of the response spectrum method, the minimum base shear
of Y major direction is 79% of the response spectrum
method, the average base shear of X major direction is 83%
of the response spectrum method, the average base shear of
Y major direction is 86% of the response spectrum method.
The chosen seismic wave conforms to the requirements of
the specification.
V. DYNAMIC ELASTOPLASTIC CALCULATION RESULTS
AND ANALYSIS

A. Frequency Analysis
Before the large seismic response, in order to check the
model after conversion, use MIDAS and ABAQUS to do
modal analysis.
The major information of ABAQUS model and MIDAS
model is in Table 2. The two kinds of software calculation
result are close to each other. So the model conversion is
accurate.
Figure 4 shows the first 6 vibration mode of ABAQUS
model, the first order and second order is the first order
translation, the third order is the first order torsional, and 4th
order and 5th order is second order translation, 6th order is
second order reversed. The period ratio of first order
torsional vibration period and first order horizontal vibration
period is 2.94/7.16 = 0.411.
(c) Modal 3, T3=3.08s
Figure 4. Structural modal vibration mode
B. The Response of Base Shear
Under the action of seismic waves, time history curve of
the total base shear as shown in figure 5 and figure 6. Under
the working condition of six inputs, minimum seismic
response of structure shear weight ratio is 6.33%.
The base shear peak and shear weight ratio under seismic
condition of structure are shown in table 3.
C. Damage of the Structure under Rare Earthquake
Damage

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 Table1 Rare earthquake elastic-plastic time history analysis and response spectrum analysis
structure base shear under single direction seismic
the wave of X direction the wave of y direction
X-direction (kN) / Y-direction (kN) /
response spectrum response spectrum
Response spectrum 751125 / 760224 /
nature wave 1 615923 82% 600419 79%
nature wave 2 600900 80% 630820 83%
artificial wave 713569 95% 737223 97%
average 620516 83% 656154 86%

Table 2 Results of MIDAS and ABAQUS model

MIDASelastic floor ABAQUSelastic floor
subdivision mesh subdivision mesh
The total mass of structure (the representative
675100 672003
value of the gravity load: t)
T1s 7.66 7.16
T2s 7.62 7.14
T3s 3.53 2.94
T4s 2.61 2.49
T5s 2.60 2.47
T6s 1.53 1.38

Table 3 Base shear and shear-weight ratio under the action of seismic
X major input seismic Y major input seismic
VxMN shear weight ratio VyMN shear weight ratio
nature wave one 425.1 6.33% 446.3 6.64%
nature wave one 502.8 7.48% 534.7 7.96%
artificial wave 556.6 8.28% 584.2 8.69%
average 494.8 7.36% 521.7 7.76%

coupling beam of the core tube. The overall damage of the

structure is small, but in the upper is more serious, because
stiffness mutate as the thickness of concrete shear wall
thinning. Compression damage of shear wall is shown in
figure 7.

Figure 5. Base shear time history curve under X principle direction

Figure 7. Shear wall damage under seismic

Figure 6. Base shear time history curve under Y principle direction
Select the natural wave two which have the most stress
reaction as the final analysis data. The analysis results show
that the shear wall is almost in plastic stage, especially in the
VI. CONCLUSIONS
This paper analyses dynamic elastoplastic of a super
high-rise building in the highly seismic region .The
performance can be summarized as below:
(1) The overall seismic performance of the structure is
good, the outer giant frame tube and steel plate -concrete

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inner tube has good resistance to lateral force effectiveness,
under six kinds of working conditions, the largest interlayer
displacement angle is 1/101, less than 1/100 of the limit
stipulated in the codes. The maximum displacement between
floors and interlayer displacement angle are near the top of
the structure.
(2) The outer frame tube keep elastic, some parts appear
plastic deformation. The outer frame tube component form
the hinge mechanism under rare earthquake, which is accord
with the idea of buckling seismic engineering.
(3) Most of the shear wall injury lighter by compression,
for the steel plate at the top of the internal tube shear wall of
the structure , because of the influence of structure stiffness
mutation and WHIPL- ASH effect, wall damage apparently,
so that have very good energy dissipation effect.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The project is supported by the Graduate Education
Development Foundation of University of Scien- ce and
Technology Beijing (20081115).

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