Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department Civil Engineering

Choosing the locations of outriggers along the height of buildings is mainly based on reducing the fundamental period of it, and thus the overturning moments. In this study, an alternative procedure is proposed to allocate outriggers along the height of the build-ing. The proposed procedure aims to reduce the difference in periods between the first two orthogonal modes of concerned structure, and thus to reduce the contribution of the twisting effect. In order to verify the accuracy of this procedure, four building heights are considered herein.These heights are numerically modeled creating almost a hundred 3D nonlinear finite-element models considering both traditional and proposed outrigger allocation techniques. First, modal properties are developed for the investigated struc-tures to ensure the effectiveness of using the new procedure in reducing the twisting moments. Next, seven different earthquake records, with six peak ground accelerations, are applied to previously mentioned structures and expected response is evaluated. Fi-nally, probability of different damage states is to establish using fragility curves consid-ering both traditional and proposed procedures utilized in allocating outriggers. The re-sults indicate that systems which use the proposed technique have stability and efficien-cy more than counterparts in the resistance of lateral excitation

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