OT predicted - Urbmons & Vertical Cities & Withstand Forces Of Nature

[a425couple]

Vertical Cities Are The Future Of Urban Living.
But How Do You Make Them Withstand Forces Of Nature?

(We are not yet at Silverbergs Urban Monads,,,, but--)

Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesVoice Move the World Forward

The concept of the ‘vertical city’ received wide attention with the
construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
With extremely tall buildings like this, one major challenge is managing
the effects of severe winds.
By Andrea Willige

In the early 1950s, Shenzhen in south-eastern China was a fishing
village with only a few thousand inhabitants. Last year, its residents
numbered around 11 million.

Shutterstock
Shenzhen City Center

While this may be a particularly extreme example of urban growth, the UN
predicts that by 2030, two-thirds of the global population will live in
cities. In many urban centers there is already a shortage of space and
expanding outwards isn’t always an option.

As a result, like never before, cities are going vertical.

Vertical cities, not skyscrapers

The concept of the ‘vertical city’ received wide attention with the
construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The tallest building in the
world, it was one of the first to be conceived as a mixed-use skyscraper
with hotel accommodation, residential apartments and offices.

Not surprisingly, China has taken a page out of Dubai’s book as part of
its rapid urban growth which saw almost 500 million people move from
rural areas into cities in the last 35 years. Five of the ten tallest
buildings in the world can be found in ‘megalopolises’ such as Shanghai,
Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Centre is a case in point. Measuring 600
meters, it is the fourth tallest building in the world and the second
tallest in China. Located in the CBD financial district of Shenzhen, it
encompasses 118 floors and an area of 600,000 square meters. In addition
to office space and a five-star boutique hotel, it also sports a
360-degree sightseeing floor.

Motion sickness

With extremely tall buildings like this, one major challenge is managing
the effects of severe winds. Most skyscrapers can move several feet in
either direction without sustaining structural damage.

The problem is that sway affects the people living and working in
ultra-high-rise buildings. Research has shown that even a small amount
of movement can trigger motion sickness, sleepiness and anxiety. Sway
can also impact on safety and stability within these gravity-defying
structures, risking movement of unsecured items.

Typically, horizontal movement can be reduced by tightening up the
building’s steel structure to make it more rigid. Many new buildings
also have one or more concrete cores built into their center to increase
resistance to movement. However, for very tall skyscrapers like the Ping
An Finance Centre, this is not sufficient.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
A vibration control device at Shanghai World Financial Center.

Creating a counterweight

To keep sway at bay at the Ping An building, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Machinery Systems installed a vibration control device featuring two
300-ton weights.

The company had experience of dealing with ultra-high-rises, having
previously put in place a smaller system with two 150-ton weights at
Shanghai World Financial Centre, which is 492 meters in height.

At Ping An Financial Centre, the two 300-ton weights and associated
control unit are installed 524 meters above the ground – close to the roof.

When the building begins to sway in high winds, sensors at the top of
the skyscraper detect the motion. Based on instant computer
calculations, the weights are then activated to counter-act the
movement. Through the action of the device, sway can be reduced by
approximately 40%.

Achieving this dramatic reduction in lateral movement will be an
important factor in the construction of new high-rise buildings, making
them more livable as more and more of the world’s population are drawn
to large cities.

Andrea has spent many years creating content for the international
business and technology press, working as a PR advisor to some of the
world's largest technology companies.

For the original version of this article and more, please visit SPECTRA,
the online media powered by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitsubishiheavyindustries/2018/01/24/vertical-cities-are-the-future-of-urban-living-but-how-do-you-make-them-withstand-forces-of-nature/#41785e516296

[alie...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 9:18:33 AM UTC-8, a425couple wrote:
> Vertical Cities Are The Future Of Urban Living.
> But How Do You Make Them Withstand Forces Of Nature?
>
> (We are not yet at Silverbergs Urban Monads,,,, but--)

Did Silverberg steal the idea from Soleri (of Arcology, uh, "fame") or was it the other way around?

> Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Voice Move the World Forward

This isn't really a new problem (Doc Smith's Skylark crew bemoaned the nonexistence of truly rigid materials) or technology. Tesla's "earthquake machine" could be seen as the direct ancestor of active sway control. I'm pretty sure (footnote) they couldn't build buildings tall enough to be threatened by wind effects back then, but you never know.

(footnote) I'm too lazy to research it just now.


Mark L. Fergerson

[Titus G]

On 25/02/18 10:22, nu...@bid.nes wrote:
> On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 9:18:33 AM UTC-8, a425couple wrote:
>> Vertical Cities Are The Future Of Urban Living.
>> But How Do You Make Them Withstand Forces Of Nature?

There is a television series called Megastructures which has described
(in laypersons' terms) some of the engineering and design solutions to
several recent extremely tall buildings. I recall the massive earthworks
in Dubai for foundations in sand and another example where wind was
funnelled through holes in the building. Fascinating stuff.

[a425couple]

On 2/24/2018 1:22 PM, nu...@bid.nes wrote:
> On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 9:18:33 AM UTC-8, a425couple wrote:
>> Vertical Cities Are The Future Of Urban Living.
>> But How Do You Make Them Withstand Forces Of Nature?
>>
>> (We are not yet at Silverbergs Urban Monads,,,, but--)
>
> Did Silverberg steal the idea from Soleri (of Arcology, uh, "fame")
or was it the other way around?

Well, the words they use are similar, but the
execution seems totally different.

from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside
"The World Inside is a science fiction novel by American writer
Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. --
Urban Monads (Urbmons), mammoth thousand-floor skyscrapers ---
Each building can hold approximately 800,000 people, "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri,
1919-2013
"He began building Arcosanti in 1970 with the help of architecture
and design students, as a place to test his urban design hypotheses."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=949&ei=iwaSWoWwKNO-jwPI4r_4Dg&q=Arcosanti&oq=Arcosanti&gs_l=img.3...2297.2297.0.3359.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.0.0....0.WSR27J57pHE

I can not see any building over about 5 stories.

> (footnote) I'm too lazy to research it just now.
> Mark L. Fergerson

Well, I looked some, kind of looks like a tie as to time,
but I'll let anyone declare a winner!

[Cryptoengineer]

"nu...@bid.nes" <alie...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:dc67135d-b651-4eca...@googlegroups.com:

You might want to look at the Taipei 101 building - it has a 660 ton
'tuned mass damper' near the top, which counters sway. Its a tourist
attraction in its own right.

pt

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:18:17 -0800, a425couple
<a425c...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

>At Ping An Financial Centre, the two 300-ton weights and associated
>control unit are installed 524 meters above the ground – close to the roof.
>
>When the building begins to sway in high winds, sensors at the top of
>the skyscraper detect the motion. Based on instant computer
>calculations, the weights are then activated to counter-act the
>movement. Through the action of the device, sway can be reduced by
>approximately 40%.

Activated how?

Weight is weight.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Ahasuerus]

Going way back (1929), there is Jan Weiss's
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Weiss) surrealistic _House of
a Thousand Floors_ (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?7758).
It's available in French, German and some other languages, but I am
unaware of an English version.

[Greg Goss]

When the building is about to start moving to the right, the weight
pushes itself to the right, applying a force to the left on the
building structure. A few moments later, it pushes itself the other
way, recentering itself and countering the harmonic movement of the
building back to center.

Setting the weight in a nest of shock absorbers is less effective, but
a LOT simpler.

--
We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.

[Quadibloc]

Of course, one issue of Magnus: Robot Fighter, 4,000 A.D. had them solve the
problem the _hard_ way...

Thus, a number of the extremely tall buildings of North Am were damaged by "forces
they were never designed to withstand" when an ancient battle-rob subverted
Weather Control in the Grand Canyon.

John Savard

[Kevrob]

Silverbob's world-building seems like he flipped Asimov's
"Caves of Steel" on its head. Instead of massive habitats
buried beneath an agricultural surface, he has super-tall
buildings rising over the amber waves of grain.

I'm not sure which makes more sense for farming. There are
"urban farms" nowadays which grow veggies totally indoors.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40420610/has-this-silicon-valley-startup-finally-nailed-the-indoor-farming-model

http://www.urbangardensweb.com/2015/10/18/indoor-underground-urban-farms-growing-in-size-and-number/

Kevin R

[Quadibloc]

I don't know about "threatened", but wind loads are considered in determining the structural strength needed even for quite modest structures.

[J. Clarke]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:40:40 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>I don't know about "threatened", but wind loads are considered in determining the structural strength needed even for quite modest structures.

There are something like nine classes of residential garage door
intended for different windload areas.

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:53:46 -0700, Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 09:18:17 -0800, a425couple
>><a425c...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>At Ping An Financial Centre, the two 300-ton weights and associated
>>>control unit are installed 524 meters above the ground – close to the roof.
>>>
>>>When the building begins to sway in high winds, sensors at the top of
>>>the skyscraper detect the motion. Based on instant computer
>>>calculations, the weights are then activated to counter-act the
>>>movement. Through the action of the device, sway can be reduced by
>>>approximately 40%.
>>
>> Activated how?
>>
>> Weight is weight.
>
>When the building is about to start moving to the right, the weight
>pushes itself to the right, applying a force to the left on the
>building structure. A few moments later, it pushes itself the other
>way, recentering itself and countering the harmonic movement of the
>building back to center.

I do not follow that at all. A weight pushing itself?

>Setting the weight in a nest of shock absorbers is less effective, but
>a LOT simpler.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Greg Goss]

Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:


>>>>When the building begins to sway in high winds, sensors at the top of
>>>>the skyscraper detect the motion. Based on instant computer
>>>>calculations, the weights are then activated to counter-act the
>>>>movement. Through the action of the device, sway can be reduced by
>>>>approximately 40%.
>>>
>>> Activated how?
>>>
>>> Weight is weight.
>>
>>When the building is about to start moving to the right, the weight
>>pushes itself to the right, applying a force to the left on the
>>building structure. A few moments later, it pushes itself the other
>>way, recentering itself and countering the harmonic movement of the
>>building back to center.
>
> I do not follow that at all. A weight pushing itself?

The weight pushes against the building frame. Or the machinery pushes
the weight. Either way, the weight moves relative to the building
framework. For me, it was easier to visualize the action taking place
from the weight's perspective.

[Bill Dugan]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 16:40:40 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>I don't know about "threatened", but wind loads are considered in determining the structural strength needed even for quite modest structures.

We had to do it to get a permit to add on to a single-family house.

[Gene Wirchenko]

So a machine pushes the wieght to make it count? I think I see,
barely. A Website on this?

And for me, it was quite confusing. We are not twin brothers.
Either that, or I am definitely not the engineering twin.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote in
news:vvj89d1dch2ve63um...@4ax.com:

Newton's Third Law: "For every action, there is an equal and
opposite reaction." Weight moves one way, building moves the other.
This counters the building moving the first way due to outside
forces (the earthquake). Just like if you stumble to the left, and
I push you to the right to keep you from falling over (while also
moving myself to the left, but hopefully in a more controlled
fashion).

This is grade school science stuff.

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[Quadibloc]

On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 11:30:25 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

quoting someone:
> >>>>When the building is about to start moving to the right, the
> >>>>weight pushes itself to the right, applying a force to the
> >>>>left on the building structure. A few moments later, it
> >>>>pushes itself the other way, recentering itself and countering
> >>>>the harmonic movement of the building back to center.

> Newton's Third Law: "For every action, there is an equal and
> opposite reaction."

That covers the "about to start", but not the "a few moments later"; for that,
some actual mechanism in the building must have actually pushed on the weight.

Of course, you may have been responding to a different part of the discussion
that I had snipped.

John Savard

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in
news:56bd3019-be90-4449...@googlegroups.com:

> On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 11:30:25 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula
> Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>
> quoting someone:
>> >>>>When the building is about to start moving to the right,
>> >>>>the weight pushes itself to the right, applying a force to
>> >>>>the left on the building structure. A few moments later,
>> >>>>it pushes itself the other way, recentering itself and
>> >>>>countering the harmonic movement of the building back to
>> >>>>center.
>
>> Newton's Third Law: "For every action, there is an equal and
>> opposite reaction."
>
> That covers the "about to start", but not the "a few moments
> later"; for that, some actual mechanism in the building must
> have actually pushed on the weight.

Are you really incapable of making the conceptual leap that the
hydraulic piston assembly is part of the weight device? What pushes a
car foward down the road?

>
> Of course, you may have been responding to a different part of
> the discussion that I had snipped.
>

Seems likely, since you go out of your way to snip out anything
actually relevant to context.

[Quadibloc]

On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 11:58:21 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:

> Are you really incapable of making the conceptual leap that the
> hydraulic piston assembly is part of the weight device? What pushes a
> car foward down the road?

Well, if someone writes that "a weight pushes itself", they might be referring
to that weight's own inertia. When they get into more complicated actions, of
course there's some kind of reactive gadgetry in there, but that gadgetry
involves stuff that actively pushes... on a weight, perhaps. It isn't the weight
itself that's doing the pushing any more.

So it isn't correct to just call that which dampens a building's response to the
wind "a weight". Making the building more top-heavy just makes matters worse.
Instead you have stuff like hydraulic pistons, dampeners, pendulums with
carefully chosen resonant frequencies. Stuff that has to be named in order that
people will be able to know what you're talking about.

John Savard

[Peter Trei]

The thing you're looking for is a 'tuned mass damper'. There's a very
low budget demo here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBUj2gxabI

There's a humungous one in the Taipei 101 building.

The key to realize is that a given tower has known sway frequency, and you can
set up an unpowered damper which greatly reduces that sway.

Active ones can be used as well.

pt

[Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha]

Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in
news:8110b502-b12c-48db...@googlegroups.com:

> On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 11:58:21 AM UTC-7, Jibini Kula
> Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:
>
>> Are you really incapable of making the conceptual leap that the
>> hydraulic piston assembly is part of the weight device? What
>> pushes a car foward down the road?
>
> Well, if someone writes that "a weight pushes itself", they
> might be referring to that weight's own inertia.

In context, clearly not. Unless you're an idiot.

[a425couple]

I think the best comparison, is where a tightrope walker
is carrying a long semi-heavy pole. If he starts to tip,
almost imperceptible movement of the pole, will correct him.

This story has some pictures of one in a building.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a14564/the-121-story-tower-that-never-sways/

Why Do Tightrope Walkers Carry A Pole/Bar During Their Performance?
https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-tightrope-walkers-carry-a-polebar-during-their-performance.html

[David DeLaney]

Hodgson's _The Night Land_ had fairly tall indoor-cities ... but they were
pyramidal, not skyscraping.

Dave, and the inhabitants had Reasons to stay indoors
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[Dimensional Traveler]

On 2/26/2018 7:21 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
> Hodgson's _The Night Land_ had fairly tall indoor-cities ... but they were
> pyramidal, not skyscraping.
>

More like artificial mountains. Large enough to house millions and tall
enough for different populations to acclimate/evolve for different
atmospheric densities.

> Dave, and the inhabitants had Reasons to stay indoors
>

To put it mildly.

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