Abstract
The prominent parts of the tops of tall buildings will vibrate drastically under strong earth tremors which may cause these parts to be damaged or even collapse. In this paper, the mechanism of the so-called whiplash effect is explained by means of an analysis of the characteristics of coupled vibrators. The correctness of this theoretical analysis has been justified by numerous examples. It has been shown that increasing the stiffness does not in all cases result in a reduction of the whiplash effect. It is suggested that in order to reduce the whiplash effect, dynamic calculations should be executed so as to adjust the stiffness and mass distribution of the buildings.
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Wan-Xie, Z., Jia-Hao, L. (1987). The whiplash effect on tall buildings. In: Kai-yuan, Y. (eds) Progress in Applied Mechanics. Mechanics of Surface Structures, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3487-0_25
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