THE REVIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TALL BUILDING STRUCTURAL ANALYSES IN CHINA

This paper presents the development and the state of art of tall building structural analyses in China, which covers: various methods based on hand computing; the matrix displacement method based on member systems;the methods of analytic and semi-analytic Ordinary Differential Equation solver; the finite element method by using various new elements; structural dynamic and time-history analyses; CAD on tall buildings; and some special problems in tall building structural analyses.Some topics for further rese...