NEW WIND-INDUCED RESPONSES ANALYSIS METHOD OF SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN WITH MODE COMPENSATION

IntroductionIn response to the demand for architecture anduse function,the span of stadiums or gymnasiumsis enlarging,which inevitably tends to involvelight- weigh roofs,such as membrane.Thesestructures with long natural periods is sensitive towind vibrations,therefore the effects of windloads,especially of dynamic wind loads,are be-coming significant at their design stage.It isknown that these types of structures are apt tohave many natural frequencies in a narrow frequen-cy range.This fact d…

NEW WIND-INDUCED RESPONSES ANALYSIS METHOD OF SPATIAL STRUCTURES IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN WITH MODE COMPENSATION

Large span spatial lattice structures have many natural frequencies in a narrow frequency range, the conventional frequency domain method is difficult to contain all significant contribution modes. Through numerical examples, it is found that some high order modes are likely to be overlooked because of their higher positions of modal order, in spite of their significance to wind response. According to the contributions of modes to strain energy of system, the paper presented an efficient method to compensate the errors owing to missing out some significant high order modes. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through a numerical analysis of the wind responses of a spherical dome.