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 Wu Xiaodong posted on Friday, November 19, 2010 - 03:35 am
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Dear Professor
We've revised our design and developed a damping system with double floors. However, we have a question about how to calculate the area of a certain floor if we use this system.
The damping system has two floors, the upper one and the lower one (For confidentiality, the photos of our damping system are attached in our private area (Team 28, the Dreaming Home)). The lower floor is fixed with columns and beams while the upper floor is flexible, and all the steel blocks are fixed on the upper floor. In a real building, the upper floor and the lower floor can be constructed of almost the same area, because the damping system can be quite small compared with the area of a floor. In our model, however, due to the restriction of construction method, we are unable to make our damping system even smaller. Besides, we are also unable to make our upper floor larger. The area of the upper floor is exactly the total area of bottoms of 4 steel blocks.
In a word, in our current design, there is a big difference between the area of the lower floor (253cm2) and the area of the upper floor (108cm2). When we calculate the area, which floor should be used, the upper one or the lower one?
This question is a little complex, thank you for your patient answer.
Xiaodong Wu |
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| Wu Xiaodong posted on Friday, November 19, 2010 - 03:46 am
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For confidentiality, photos of our damping system are attached in our private area (Team 28, the Dreaming Home)
Link: http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/scripts/discuss/board-auth.pl?file=/1412/1585.html& lm=1290138053
at the bottom of the page
Thank you very much. |
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