TY - JOUR A1 - Weber, Felix A1 - Huber, Peter A1 - Borchsenius, Fredrik A1 - Braun, Christian T1 - Performance of TMDI for Tall Building Damping T2 - Actuators N2 - This study investigates the vibration reduction of tall wind-excited buildings using a tuned mass damper (TMD) with an inerter (TMDI). The performance of the TMDI is computed as a function of the floor to which the inerter is grounded as this parameter strongly influences the vibration reduction of the building and for the case when the inerter is grounded to the earth whereby the absolute acceleration of the corresponding inerter terminal is zero. Simulations are made for broadband and harmonic excitations of the first three bending modes, and the conventional TMD is used as a benchmark. It is found that the inerter performs best when grounded to the earth because, then, the inerter force is in proportion to the absolute acceleration of only the pendulum mass, but not to the relative acceleration of the two inerter terminals, which is demonstrated by the mass matrix. However, if the inerter is grounded to a floor below the pendulum mass, the TMDI only outperforms the TMD if the inerter is grounded to a floor within approximately the first third of the building’s height. For the most realistic case, where the inerter is grounded to a floor in the vicinity of the pendulum mass, the TMDI performs far worse than the classical TMD. KW - damping KW - inerter KW - simulation KW - tall building KW - TMD KW - TMDI KW - wind excitation Y1 - 2020 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2358 VL - 9 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - MPDI ER -