International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronic, Industrial and Control Engineering (MEIC 2014)

Modal Analysis of Frame Structure Teaching

Building
Ji Dongyu Li Lamei
Hunan Urban Construction College North China University of Water Resources and Electric
Xiangtan, China Power
[email protected] Zhengzhou, China
[email protected]

Abstract—In order to have a clear understanding for frame

structure’s vibration modal, and improving the structure’s II. SUMMARY
dynamic characteristics. This paper adopts finite element The teaching building is reinforced concrete frame
method to simulate and calculate frame structure teaching structure system, this building is 6 floors, story height of
building, and gets natural frequency and vibration mode of the first floor is 7 m, story height of other floor is 4.2 m.
frame structure teaching building, and analyses and explain Construction area is 8425 m2, the building is rectangle in
calculation results. Analysis results show that the frame plane view. Foundation adopts sand gravel, thickness is 2
structure buildings is economic and reasonable, can satisfy
m[4].
the engineering requirement. The results showed that, the
first and second order vibration mode of teaching building III. CALCULATION MODEL
structure is translational vibration mode, and the upper
vibration mode is main, the dynamic characteristics of A Model Parameters.
teaching building structure are more complicated, the The concrete strength grade of frame structure
vibration modal of teaching building structure are mainly
teaching building is C40, elastic modulus of concrete is
translational in the process of vibration, teaching building
32.5 GPa[5-6], poisson's ratio of concrete is 0.2, density is
structure’s transverse stiffness is minimum, the longitudinal
stiffness is more smaller, The vertical stiffness is maximum.
2500kg/m3. Elastic modulus of foundation is 0.261 GPa,
poisson's ratio is 0.27, density is 2660kg/m3.
Keywords-Frame structure; Teaching building; Modal
analysis; Finite element method; Vibration frequency. B Finite element model.
In the finite element calculation model of frame
I. INTRODUCTION structure teaching building, beams and columns adopt
With the rapid development of construction industry in Beam188 element, floor adopts Shell63 element,
our country, reinforced concrete frame structure has been foundation soil adopts Solid45 element[7-8].
widely used[1]. In order to accurately calculate natural In order to make real simulation of frame structure
frequency and vibration mode of reinforced concrete teaching building structure'force, the foundation size
frame structure and provide a solid theoretical basis for according to Saint-Venant's Principle[9]. Length of
structure design, international scholars carried on the foundation is 100 m, width of foundation is 30 m, depth of
thorough research,and the birth of the finite element foundation is 2 m. In the finite element calculation model
method provides an effective way to solve this of frame structure teaching building structure, Y direction
problem[2-3]. is height direction, Z direction and X direction is
horizontal direction[10], finite element calculation model
shows in the Fig .1.

Figure 1. Finite element calculation model of frame structure teaching building structure

IV. ANALYSIS OF CALCULATION RESULTS natural frequency represents structure stiffness is large and
Modal analysis is the study of structural dynamic structure is very hard. From modal modal, we can know
characteristics, to calculate natural frequency and the deformation trend of the structure under a certain
vibration mode. Natural frequency can represent the natural frequency. If structure need to be strengthened, we
overall stiffness, low natural frequency represents can strengthen the weaker part firstiy. This paper
structure stiffness is small and structure is very soft, high calculates and analyses dynamic characteristics of frame

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structure teaching building structure, obtain the first Each order vibration mode of frame structure teaching
fourteen vibration modes and frequencies of this structure. building structure shows in the Fig .2 to Fig .15.

Figure 2. The first order vibration mode Figure 3. The second order vibration mode

Figure 4. The third order vibration mode Figure 5. The fourth order vibration mode

Figure 6. The fifth order vibration mode Figure 7. The sixth order vibration mode

Figure 8. The seventh order vibration mode Figure 9. The eighth order vibration mode

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 Figure 10. The ninth order vibration mode Figure 11. The tenth order vibration mode

Figure 12. The eleventh order vibration mode Figure 13. The twelfth order vibration mode

Figure 14. The thirteenth order vibration mode Figure 15. The fourteenth order vibration mode

As can be seen from the Fig .2 to the Fig .15,the twelfth order, thirteenth order, fourteenth order vibration
difference value of the first three vibration modes and mode are torsional vibration mode.
frequencies of frame structure teaching building structure With order increasing, transverse vibration occurs first,
is very small, the first and the second order vibration mode then longitudinal vibration occurs, finally vrtical vibration
of high-rise connected structure are translational vibration occurs. Because vibration often happen first in the smaller
mode, the third order vibration mode is torsional vibration stiffness part of frame structure teaching building structure,
mode, the fourth order, fifth order, sixth order vibration therefore, transverse stiffness of frame structure teaching
mode are vertical vibration mode, the seventh order, building structure is minimum, longitudinal stiffness takes
eighth order, ninth order, tenth order, eleventh order, second place, vertical stiffness is maximum. The first and

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