Numerical Study on Various Position of Multiple Water Tanks toward Earthquake on High-rise Building

Abstract

Earthquake can cause many problems to the structures, which lead to building collapse and may takes humans life. One of the effort to reduce the structural response is by introduce the damping system to the buildings where the energy of the system is slowly reduced until the vibration of the system is totally eliminated and the system is brought to rest. Several techniques are available nowadays, however passive control system has advantage in term of cost especially in Malaysia where the earthquake is not the major threat like in Japan but it is good to tune existing water tank to became a passive damper where it is there went situation needed. The objective of the present paper is to analyse the practicality of implementing multiple water tank as passive Multiple Tuned Liquid Damper and finding the best position of water tanks, which would reduce peak response of the structure subjected to seismic forces using SAP2000. 15 multi-storey concrete structure attached with five water tanks with 3 different situation of water tanks location under consideration. In order to study the depth ratio parameter, the water level was varies for each situation such as ¼ tank for all water tanks, half tanks for all water tanks and ¾ tank for all water tanks. The results shows that Position 2 filled with ¾ water has highest significant reduction in term of structural displacement which is 12.6mm compare to other water tanks positions and water level.