A. Abdelraheem Farghaly,
Volume 2, Issue 4 (10-2012)
Abstract
High tall buildings are more susceptible to dynamic excitations such as wind and seismic excitations. In this paper, design procedure and some current applications of tuned mass damper (TMD) were studied. TMD was proposed to study response of 20 storey height building to seismic excitations using time history analysis with and without the TMD.
The study indicates that the response of structures such as storey displacements and shear force of columns can be dramatically reduced by using TMD groups with specific arrangement in the model. The study illustrates the group of four TMDs distributed on the plane can be effective as reinforced concrete core shear wall.
R. Javanmardi, H. Rahami,
Volume 16, Issue 2 (4-2026)
Abstract
This paper presents a novel framework for structural reliability assessment of buildings incorporating Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular columns, utilizing a deep surrogate model formulated in the complex number domain. High-fidelity numerical models are developed using SAP2000 software, with analysis outputs pre-processed in MATLAB. A hybrid deep learning architecture is implemented within the PyTorch framework, featuring complex-valued parameters and activation functions that enable superior representation of phase-dependent and oscillatory behaviors inherent in nonlinear limit state functions. Each complex parameter simultaneously encodes both real and imaginary influences, enhancing representational efficiency while requiring fewer parameters than conventional real-valued networks. Bidirectional communication between MATLAB and PyTorch is established through system-level execution protocols, enabling seamless integration with the SM Toolbox for parametric structural modeling. The surrogate model is trained on strategically sampled datasets, with architecture complexity and dataset size adaptively determined based on parameter counts. Reliability indices are computed using the Weighted Average Simulation Method applied separately to real and imaginary components, with final reliability estimated through weighted averaging. The proposed method is validated through three mathematical benchmark functions and three engineering case studies, including a three-span continuous beam, a roof truss, and a ten-story building with CFST columns. Results demonstrate minimum improvements of 79% in mathematical examples and up to 95% in engineering applications regarding required function evaluations, while maintaining essentially zero estimation error. For the ten-story building, computation time reduced from approximately 3.9 days using conventional simulation to 2.3 hours—a 98% improvement—demonstrating the framework's potential for efficient and accurate reliability assessment of complex structural systems.