Abstract:
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...