Connected Control Method for Internally-Divided Single Building Coupled with Distibuted Connected Control Method

Abstract

The connected control method (CCM) utilized reaction force between buildings as damping force by using connecting springs and dampers. Integrated connected control method (ICCM) to high-rise building split into four substructures is already presenting and its effectiveness is already confirming. Besides, Distributed CCM(DCCM) is also presented to connect buildings by using plural dampers on multiple layers in order to ease stress concentration. In this paper, to investigate the applicability of ICCM with DCCM to real buildings, experimental apparatus be modified and it is carried out precise examination, through computer simulation and experiments. As the results, the performance of ICCM with DCCM was clearly shown.