Abstract: As today’s tall buildings become ever taller and more slender, wind-induced vibration is a serious design issue. Installing tuned mass dampers (TMDs) is a reliable solution to mitigate wind-induced vibration of tall buildings. This paper investigates structural performance of vertically distributed multiple TMDs along the height of the building. Compared with the conventional TMD system, composed of very large TMD masses installed near the top of the building, much smaller TMD masses are used in the vertically distributed TMD system. Though the performance of the vertically distributed TMD masses is somewhat reduced, the system can still be very effective depending on the range of the distribution. In addition, the valuable spaces near the top of tall buildings can be saved for more desirable architectural functions.

• Publication Date: 24-Sep-2017
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-135-1-38
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Abstract: Many fields of research are concerned with pervasive computing, e.g., location-tracking, ubicomp functionalities and MANET transmission strategies. In spite of all intense research put in these sub-fields [1-60], their merging still lies along a long way ahead before yielding useful results. More distinctly here, the exertion of location-aware transmission strategies is envisioned to enhance energy management in ubicomp. Such enhancements expected [1] encompass improvements in location accuracy and refresh rates, the application of land-based GPS systems, development of better protocols optimised for transmission according to distance criteria and fine-tuning the precision of the distance criteria to apply the protocol. The know-how of distance coverages by transmitted packets in ubicomp environments and corresponding variations over different node densities, is assuredly profitable for refining transmission protocols in MANETs. One particular empirical study was carried out formerly [

• Publication Date: 24-Sep-2017
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-134-4-08
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