International Urban Earthquake Engineering Center for Mitigating Seismic Mega Risk : Education : Syllabus : Structural Design of Tall Building

Name of Lecture

Structural Design of Tall Building

Semester

Autumn Semester

Credits

1-0-0

Opening year

Every Year

Lecturer

Prof. Akira WADA

Syllabus

[Scope and outline]

Although in Japan as earthquake prone country, many tall buildings exceeding 1000 have been built in these 40 years. Many structural systems and forms, new structural materials, computer analysis technology and experiences of earthquakes were in the progress of the structural design of tall buildings. Topics dealt in this course include:

Introduction to structural design of tall buildings

Tall buildings in the world

Tall buildings in Japan

Analysis model of structures

Basic structural features of tall buildings

New technologies of tall building structure