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LONG-TERM MONITORING OF DYNAMIC
RESPONSE OF A TALL BUILDING FOR PERFORMANCE
EVALUATION AND LOADING CHARACTERISATION
James Brownjohn University of Sheffield UK
Abstract
Dynamic response of a 280m building in Singapore has been tracked during construction from
1994 to 1995 and since then during normal operation. Initial measurements were of modal
parameters for FE model updating and the system has developed into a monitoring system for
characterising the load and response mechanisms via the validated FE model. The decade of
monitoring has enveloped the era of rapid developments in output-only system identification and
these are explained in the context of application in the building study. The nature of response to
different dynamic loads is presented together with the long term drift in modal properties.
1 Structural health and performance monitoringStructural health monitoring (SHM) for civil infrastructure includes the systems not only for
detection/diagnosis of progressive or sudden damage, but also for performance monitoring to
identify load/response relationships either as a baseline for the structure itself or for calibration of
a loading model or code. The words health and performance are both used in defining SHM
systems and are synonymous, and a major activity for civil infrastructure monitoring is geared
towards a long term evaluation of what is normal structural performance or health.
The monitoring exercise reported in this paper, conducted over the period from late 1993 to 2004,
began as manual readings of strain gauges and has evolved into a system to provide information
about the various forms of environmental loading (wind, tremors and temperature) via measurable
responses (stress, strain, acceleration and displacement). Along the way it has been used as a toolto study a variety of monitoring technologies including operational modal analysis.
As well as manual monitoring of embedded static gauges during construction, natural frequencies
of the building were tracked as construction progressed. A modal survey of the completed but
empty building used the conventional frequency domain identification tools of the time and was
followed by installation of a bi-axial acceleration recorder which developed into a complete
system for recording of wind speed signals together with accelerations from roof and basement
levels. The most recent development has been the installation and extended evaluation of a dual-
rover GPS system integrated with the existing monitoring systems and the ambient response data
have been revisited using more sophisticated analysis tools.
2 Building configurationA full description of this 280m Republic Plaza office tower is provided by the architect [1]. Fig. 1shows a perspective view of the building. The octagonal reinforced concrete (RC) central core wall
maintains a plan area approximately 22m square for almost the full height of the building and the
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perimeter of the building comprises eight large and eight small steel tube columns filled with
concrete up to level 49 and marking out a square of side 45m at ground level. Plan area reduces
with height, tapering sections bring first the large columns then the small columns back towards
the core wall. Double-storey mechanical equipment (M&E) floors are located above the tapering
sections where outriggers are installed to enhance the rigidity of the building frame under lateral
loads. A horizontal steel framing system is pinned at the core and rigidly fixed at the columns and
supports a Bondek-formed office slab. Caisson founds, down to 60m ensure rigid base fixity.
2.1 Construction sequenceFoundation construction began in late 1991 and work on the superstructure began in early 1993
with installation of first static instruments by Shimizu in the core wall at level 18, followed by first
readings on 30th October 1993. The main structural system was completed in March 1995 and
completion of the curtain wall took a further 80 days. Water storage tanks were installed at M&E
floors (rooftop and levels 28, 47 and 65) in mid June 1995 totalling 1.5% of the total structural
dead load and interior finishing works and installations by tenants continued even up to the end of
1996 including the lavish fitting out of the executive club at levels 62 and 63.
3 Tracking natural frequencies during constructionBy mid June 1994 a portable acceleration recorder was available and was used to record horizontalaccelerations in orthogonal symmetry axes (labelled A and B) aligned with the low-rise and high-
rise lift lobbies respectively. Pairs of first mode frequency values were obtained from SDOF curve
fitting to auto-spectra of the signals regularly up to the end of 1995 when a formal modal survey
[2] was undertaken, between 20th November and 1st December 1995.
The variation of period for fundamental modes in each direction i.e. A1 and B1 during
construction is shown in Fig. 2 where it is clear that while B develops into the stiffer direction,
frequencies were originally identical. The difference would be due to the changing arrangement of
the core wall as higher levels feature a large opening previously enclosing low-rise lift shafts.
From the final stages of construction there was no evidence that curtain wall affected either
stiffness or damping characteristics of the structure.
4 Ambient vibration testing [2]: 1980s technologyAs this conference demonstrates, the last decade has seen a revolution in ambient vibration testing
(AVT) or operational modal analysis (OMA). Until then customary AVT (as it was then known)
used peak-picking, which works on the frequency domain ratio of response signals through
consideration of a common relationship with an unknown input. Specifically, for a specific
(angular) frequency the ratio of acceleration response ( )jX at levelj to force input ( )kP at
level kon a building is defined as the inertance form of the frequency response function (FRF):
( ) ( ) ( )ij j k H X P . 1)
By considering the equations of motion it can be shown [3] that
( )1
Nr r
jk r j k
r
H H =
= 2)
where
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( )2
2 2 2r
r r r
Hi
=
+ +3)
is the dynamic amplification factor and r rj k is the modal constant containing information about
mode shapes r and mass distribution for one ofNpossible modes rhaving natural frequency and
damping ratio ,r r .
For AVT of a building it is assumed that unmeasured forces ( )kP are applied simultaneously at
all m possible levels k, so the response at level j is
( ) ( ) ( )1
Nr r
j k r j k
k r
X P H =
= = ( ) ( )1
Nr r
k r j k
k r
P H =
. 4)
Also it has to be assumed that the input force is not a function of frequency but has a spectrum
with constant (stationary) mean value at each frequency. This is hardly true for wind but,
compared to the fast changing ( )rH , the auto spectral density of wind force per storey is only a
weak function of frequency. The net effect of the distributed load is obtained by summing over the
levels k while taking into account the lack of coherence between loading at different levels,
leading to an approximate distributed effect C and response depending on levelj i.e.
( ) ( )1
nr
j r j
r
X C H =
= . 5)
The spectral approach to predicting dynamic response due to wind is described in detail in other
references [4]. For excitation by ground motion similar analysis can be used except that the
effective forces at each storey are coherent and proportional to ground motion.
From measured time series of acceleration response ( )jx t , the scalar discrete Fourier transforms
(FFTs) are formed into a vector of complex FFTs written here as ( ){ }X to remind that is it avector of functions in the frequency domain. From all combinations of products of these vectors is
created a three-dimensional matrix of cross-spectral density functions. In practice an average is
usually made over a recording divided into Mframes of 2n samples using the Welch method [5],
where windowing and overlapping may be applied. Hence
( ) ( ){ } ( ){ }( )H
XX E X X =S 6)
is the experimentally derived matrix of cross-spectral densities containing at row p and column q
the complex scalar cross-spectral density:
( ) ( )( )*qp p qS E X X = 7)
The area under the single-sided CSD or ASD plots provide mean square values of acceleration and
the square root of ASD is commonly used, having units acceleration/Hz1/2
.
4.1 Peak-picking and operating deflection shapes (ODS)Usually the mode shape is estimated by varying p while keeping a reference q constant and
reading off the values down a column of the CSD matrix at a resonant frequency identified as a
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peak in the spectrum. These values contain phase and amplitude information normalised to a value
of 1 with angle zero by dividing by the ASD of the chosen reference signal. This is called 'peak-
picking' and is evaluated from the ratio of CSD between positionsp and q to ASD at position q:
( )
( )
( ) ( )( )( ) ( )( )
*
*
p qqp
qq q q
E X X S
S E X X
=
=
( )( )
o
o
p r
q r
XE
X
8)
At a specific natural frequencyor
the contribution of mode ro to response dominates over all the
other modes hence:
( )( )
o
o
p r
q r
XE
X
( )
( )
1
1
o
o
Nr
r r p
r
Nr
r r q
r
C H
E
C H
=
=
=
o
o
o
o
r
r p
r
r q
CH
CH
. 9)
Hence as all butor
H are negligible ator
,
( )
( )
o
o
qp r
qq r
S
S
o
o
r
p
r
q
. 10)
This recovers the approximate ratio of modal ordinates between two locations. In fact it provides
the operating deflection shape (ODS), which is an approximation to mode shape. Further, the
ASD ( )qqS around the resonance can be used for estimation of frequency and damping ratio
through curve-fitting. Spectral estimates in ASDs and CSDs are subject to variance errors in
inverse proportion to the number of averages used in the Welch procedure and at least part of these
errors carry over to mode shapes through equation 10). Damping, and to a lesser extent frequency,
are subject to bias and variance errors according to parameters such as type of window used,
number of averages and width of the resonant peak in relation to frequency resolution. For civil
structures with low damping, very long periods of measurement are required and it is (or needs to
be) assumed that the loading spectrum is Gaussian and the modal parameters are stationary
(constant) for the duration
4.2 1995 Ambient vibration test procedureThe procedure for the AVS data collection used in the 1995 test used a reference accelerometer q
at the same location (one corner of the highest -65th-level close to the core wall) and while moving
three rover accelerometers p to different locations throughout the height of the building and
applying equation (10) at recurrent spectral peaks. Signals were sampled, at 15Hz, for as long as
possible while keeping accelerometers aligned in one direction, before rotating them all by 90,measuring again, then shifting the three accelerometers to new floors. The sequence was repeated
over several days to map modal ordinates throughout the whole building in A and B directions
with respect to a vertical line through the height of the building at the corner of the core wall.
As the measurements progressed it became clear that modes did not divide exactly into expected A
and B directions, rather that the principal axes of movement were rotated unknown angles with
respect to these obvious symmetry axes. Also, there was evidence of significant torsional responseeven in the translational modes, so a set of four measurements was made, one at each of floors 18,
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32, 46 and 65 referenced to one of the locations in the vertical roving of accelerometers, to identify
the unknown angles and mode shapes in horizontal planes using the set of four accelerometers
arrayed at four corners.
The resulting pieces of mode shapes have been glued together to generate a complete set of
twelve modes numbered A1 through A4 for modes closest to the A direction, B1 through B4 for
modes aligned closest to B direction and T1 through T4 for modes of almost pure torsion. Modes
A1, A2, A3 and T1 are illustrated in Fig. 3 together with a typical non-dimensional auto-spectrumof acceleration.
5 Finite element model updatingUsing the experimental modal parameters identified in the 1995 AVT, a complete set of drawings
and information from the contactor concerning mass loadings, a thorough study of the building
structure was been undertaken via a model updating exercise [6]. The procedure used a
combination of the SAP2000 code and an expert system shell to search a progression of model
variants for a reasonable match between experimental and analytical natural frequencies and mode
shapes. Further validation has since been provided by comparing simulated and measured response
to measured ground motions [7].
6 Acceleration recording systemFrom October 1996 to the present, acceleration signals have been recorded and analysed with a
few breaks due to data download, hardware faults or maintenance. In the initial installation, two
accelerometers were placed in a telecoms riser cabinet with the acquisition system used for the
modal survey and left recording continuously for two weeks as part of the learning experience to
track the levels of normal response. During that period the response caused by a strong (Ms6.3)
and relatively close (epicentral distance 700km) earthquake that occurred in Indonesia in October
1996 was recorded, being the first time series recording of building structural response in
Singapore.
From early 1997, the acceleration recording system component of the monitoring system
comprised two pairs of accelerometers, attached to the corner of the core wall at basement level
(B1) and top M&E floor (65) and connected by signal cable to the four channel signal conditioner
comprising power supply, low pass filter, accelerometer offset adjust and amplification used in theAVT. The accelerometers are Quartz-flex QA-700 servo accelerometers that have noise threshold
of around 1 micro-g, can be run noise-free on very long cables and generate current proportional to
total (static+dynamic) acceleration that is dropped across a user supplied load resistor to provide
adjustable gain. Acceleration signals have been sampled in frames of 4096 samples acquired either
at 7.5Hz (before 11/2001) or 8Hz (after 11/2001). A triggering system has been evolved to capture
the few % of records that have strong or interesting response, for example a one-off strong signal
occurring during a quiet period (at night) indicating an earthquake.
The 1995 AVT was too short and signal to noise rations too low to identify reliably building
response at the very low floors, but from an ensemble of large amplitude response time histories
since collected during strong winds it has been possible to identify to good accuracy the mode
shape ordinates at basement, normalised to unity at the roof. For the first three modes these values
are 0.006, -0.010 and 0.016. As this shows the foundation to be very rigid, it has been argued that
the basement performance is a good representation of local ground movement hence, with thesensitive mode 2 trigger the building works as a sensitive seismometer.
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7 Operational modal analysis [8]: 1990s technologyWith ten years of acceleration response data it was useful to apply some of the newly developed
operational modal analysis technology to study the mode frequencies and damping, together with
orientation in detail based on the four channels of roof and basement signal. For this purpose the
natural excitation technique (NExT) was used together with the eigensystem realization algorithm
(ERA) and supplemented by the existing vibration test procedures.
7.1 NExT: Natural Excitation TechniqueProcedures are now available to improve the accuracy and ease of AVT data analysis and the
ability to discriminate close modes. One valuable contribution is NExT [9] that can obtain a set of
frequencies, damping ratios and true mode shapes..
NExT may use ERA [10] applied to a set of impulse response functions (IRFs) which can be
obtained either through cross-covariance functions of the original time series or the inverse Fourier
transforms of their frequency domain equivalent, the cross-spectral densities (CSDs). In the
applications described here the combined procedure is termed NExT/ERA.
A discretised structural system is represented as having mass, damping and stiffness M, C and K.
For a stick model of a building having one lumped mass at each floor and one spring element
(column) between floors, the storey or level displacements form a time-varying vectorx. Theequations of motion are then written as
+ + =Mx Cx Kx p . 11)
These are transformed to the state space form of first order equations
= +z Az Bp 12)
where, for example,
=
1 1M C M KA
I 0
=
xz
x
and
-1MB =
0.
The frequencies and damping ratios of the MCK system of equation (11) appear as conjugate pairs
of eigenvalues ofA:
21i = A 13)
and the eigenvectors ofA are also the eigenvectors of equation (11) for free vibration. Hence once
a form ofA representing a discretised modal model of the true structure can be found from test
data, the modal parameters can be 'realised'. ERA recovers a candidate A from IRFs that represent
the multi-mode behaviour described by equations (11) and (12). The IRFs can be shown to be
equivalent (except for a common scale factor) and contain the same information when recovered
from:
a) Directly measurement of free decay in time domainb) Inverse FFTs of frequency response functions such as given in equation 1)c) Cross-covariance functions of random responses to a common (Gaussian) excitationd) Inverse FFTs of cross-spectral densities such as given in equation 7) for common
(Gaussian) excitation channels
Fig. 4 shows the time series of basement (channel 1) and level 65 (channel 3) response resultingfrom weak ground motions due to a tremor some 600km distant. The spectrograms show the
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broadband character of the ground motion and resonant amplification at the upper floors. These are
used to generate cross-covariance functions R11,R13,R31 andR33 that forma square matrix or 2x2
matrix or blockiX . Hence A is a covariance block Hankel matrix and the method is termd
CBHM. These are obtained directly from the short sequence of the data of Fig. 4 and represent
case c) above. Wind-induced response is similarly broad band but there is no basement response.
R13,R31 are mirrorimages of each other if negative (time) lags are included.
Equivalent plots could be obtained as in case d) by inverse FFT of CSDs either from a singlemeasurement or from averaging over many records (e.g. obtained during strong winds).
The examples are for scalar or square forms of iX . A third and more usual case is where IRFs,
FRFs, cross-covariance functions or CSDs are formed between a group ofn signals and a common
reference; in this case iX is a nx1 column vector.
7.2 ERA: Eigensystem Realisation AlgorithmWith
iX representing as a scalar, vector or matrix the cross-covariance or impulse response
function (IRF) at the ith time sample, a matrix is constructed by stacking thei
X :
( )
0 1
1 2 1
1
0
a
a
b b a b
+
+ +
=
X X X
X X XH
X X X
14)
This form is called the Hankel matrix 'at time 0' and the sequence ofiX at discrete times i are
known as the Markov parameters. As H(0) contains IRFs which represent the vibration
characteristics, it also contains information about the mode shapes, frequencies and decay rates. As
more rows and columns are added the rank grows until, in theory, it reaches a limit according to
number of vibration modes contributing. A minimum rank form ofH is reconstructed and a state
matrix A is recovered from it. The procedure of ERA is described very thoroughly elsewhere [10].
7.3 Variations of modal parametersThe efficient NExT/ERA procedure is useful for examining variations of natural frequencies, since
some researchers have considered them to be directly or indirectly useful as damage/degradation
sensitive parameters for SHM. Data from 15 days of continuous recording of wind-induced
response were analysed frame by frame (case c) above), with a degree of overlap, to extract modal
parameters. Fig. 5 shows the results for mode A1; the bars indicate by height (z-axis, labeled
msv) and lightness of shading the strength of a mode identified at a time and frequency located
in the horizontal plane of the figure. In order to judge the repeatability of the estimates using ERA,
different sizes of H were used, equivalent to different numbers of lags in the cross-covariance
functions constructed from overlapping pieces of the 1Hz sampled time series (decimated from the
original 8Hz). The two solid lines plot (with arbitrary scaling) variations of mode A1 RMS
amplitude (lower line) and ambient temperature value (upper line). The ambient temperature
variations would certainly differ from the structure core temperatures but there is a clear diurnal
effect, with no convincing effect of mode amplitude.
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Fig. 6 plots the variation of mode A2, B2, A3 and B3 frequencies over a period of 6 years,.
identified using the simple auto-power SDOF curve fitting technique. The frequencies drop on
average 0.65% per annum but there is considerable scatter, in part due to the variability of the
identification method and in part due to the type of systematic variation evident in Fig. 5.
Other methods of system identification based only on output measurements have been used. The
transmissibility (frequency response) function measured between roof and basement shows clearly
the characteristic of a lightly damped multi-degree of freedom system and is amenable tofrequency domain curve fitting techniques usually applied to frequency response functions from
forced vibration.
Fig. 7 shows the real and imaginary parts of the transmissibility function using cross-powers
averaged over a set of earthquakes, and the resulting circle fit for mode A2. Using single events
works only for certain tremor signals, while averaging broadens the peaks (as the characteristics
are not stationary), but this does demonstrate the possibilities of appropriate signal processing.
8 Global positioning systemWith a proven track record in recording dynamic structural deflections in suspension bridges [11],
the global positioning system (GPS) offers possibilities of absolute position measurement for
resonant, dynamic non-resonant and static responses. Hence, in 1999 the acceleration and wind
recording system was upgrade to integrate a dual rover GPS system.
The system at Republic Plaza was designed to operate in both RTK and off-line post-processing
modes. RTK solutions output at 1Hz for each sample as text data are immediately converted to
analog signals that are supplied to and recorded by additional channels on the existing data
acquisition system. Hence GPS would provide displacement data from DC to 0.5Hz while
acceleration data would also provide, by integration, absolute displacements down to
approximately 0.2Hz.
The initial GPS data appeared very noisy and not to correlate with other signals, hence it was
difficult to believe what the data represented. In fact validating the GPS data was a major issue, as
the signals are subject to various forms of error such as multi-path, cycle-slip, random noise and
systematic noise. Also, the total movement of the building, expected to be of the order of +/-0.1m,
is expected to comprise components of dynamic and static response to wind as well as static
response to temperature changes in and around the building. As well as using Direct evidence ofsystem operation by physically moving the antenna, oscillatory displacements at least 5mm
amplitude induced by strong winds were compared with acceleration data.
Response during strong winds shows a clear modal response, but the best evidence so far is from
low frequency ground movements generated by the Aceh earthquake of 26/12/2004; oscillations of
around 2cm amplitude were observed, relative to the base station receiver. Unlike accelerometers,
which provide absolute displacements, RTK GPS provides relative displacement information.
Displacement relative to building foundation is available by integrating acceleration data at
basement as well as roof, but is likely to be different motion relative to a building some distance
away due variations in ground motion. Figure 8 (left) compares GPS eastings from both rovers
(first two rows) with double-integrated accelerations. There are differences, in part due to the
uncertain base station movement but there is clear correspondence. More evidence is provided in
the right hand plot that shows modes identified using the CBHM approach on the time series,
taking different number of blocks (d). The modes and damping ratios are perfectly in line withthose from accelerometer data.
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So far, due to the high stiffness and small movements, GPS has been unable to identify clearly and
convincingly the slowly varying movement of the building during wind, but this is largely due to
relatively benign conditions. As always, an extreme event (wind storm) would provide valuable
data for evaluating not only the building but the GPS itself.
9 ConclusionsA range of output-only identification procedures have been applied to data from bothaccelerometers and GPS to show not only the power of the techniques but also to learn in detail
about the modal properties of the building, which have allowed for the building to be used as a
giant load cell and seismometer for ambient loads.
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Design and Construction, Singapore, The Institution of Engineers Singapore., 1997
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Figure 1 View of top of Republic Plaza building
Figure 3 (below), clockwise from top
left: mode A1, mode A2, mode A3,
mode T1.
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acceleration response in A-direction
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vibration mode (A1, B1) frequencies
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Figure 4 Time series and spectrogram for basement (ch1) and roof (ch3) acceleration signals
recorded resulting from regional (Indonesian) earthquake
Figure 5 Block-by-block application of NExT/ERA to free-vibration (wind-induced) building
response over 17 days, showing scatter of mode A1 and B1 frequencies and limited pattern.
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Figure 6 (left) variation of mode A3
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Figure 7 (below):left: real and imaginary parts of
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