| Azer Kasimzade, Varol Koç, Furkan Gunday, Hasan Yılmaz, Emin Nematli A New Approach in Structural Control: An Industrial Application for the Tallest Building in the Caucasus |
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| Abstract. For the Baku Tower (BT), the tallest building in the Caucasus region, con-structed in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, controlling dynamic behavior is critical for both safety and user comfort. The structure is equipped with a Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) system with a mass of 400 tons to reduce vibra-tions caused by wind and earthquakes. In this study, the dynamic analysis results of the BT with and without the damper were compared using the Fi-nite Element Method (FEM). The results show that the use of TMDs increases the period. In the second phase of the study, the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system installed on the building is examined. Through accelerometers and sensors placed on critical floors, the dynamic behavior of the structure is continuously monitored, and warning signals are sent to the building man-agement and power control systems when critical threshold values are ex-ceeded, based on real-time comparisons of the obtained data. Therefore, the structural control system performance and the indicators obtained from nu-merical dynamic analyses are correlated with the real-time SHM system. Thus, the analysis results are evaluated beyond their use in design and verifi-cation, and integrated into building operation and safety decision-making processes. Critical parameters such as story displacements, vibration charac-teristics, and peak displacements obtained from dynamic analyses are used as monitorable threshold values by the SHM system. In this way, this data is transformed into operational decision criteria that can be transferred to the building control system. The integrated use of structural control systems and SHM applications in a high-rise building has been examined through anal-yses and applications. |
| Keywords: Structural control, Tuned mass damper (TMD), Structural health monitoring (SHM), High-rise buildings, Wind effect, Seismic behavior, Dynamic analy-sis, Vibration control, Decision support system, Smart building systems |
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| DOI: https://doi.org/10.54381/itta2026.4.02 |