
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
A modal property analysis of linked tall buildings using a matrix model
K.T. Tse & J. Song
Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong, P.R. China
ABSTRACT: A 3-D analytical matrix-form model of linked tall building that can consider varied locations
and numbers of links is introduced.Then the effect of stiffness of link is investigated by parametric analysis. The
results show that the link could stiffen the structure in terms