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Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Structures with Combined Shear Wall, Bracing, and Damper Systems Under Lateral Loading: A Review
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Structural Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV10I1-1719783
Abstract
The growth of high-rise construction in seismically active regions has made the control of the lateral response of buildings a governing design concern. Reinforced-concrete (RC) shear walls, steel bracing, and supplemental dampers are the three dominant strategies used to resist earthquake and wind actions, and increasingly they are combined into hybrid systems whose behaviour is evaluated numerically in finite-element platforms such as ETABS.This paper reviews the state of the art on the dynamic analysis of high-rise structures that combine shear walls, bracing, and damper systems under lateral loading. It compares the working mechanisms, analysis methods, and reported performance of these systems, and identifies the technologies and design methods that currently dominate the field.Across the reviewed studies a consistent pattern emerges: stiffness-based devices (walls and bracing) shorten the fundamental period and reduce displacement but attract larger inertial forces, whereas velocity-dependent dampers reduce drift, member forces, and floor acceleration without a comparable increase in stiffness. Hybrid wall–brace–damper systems combine these benefits, and response-spectrum and non-linear time-history analysis, together with the P-Delta effect, are the standard evaluation tools. Recent work is moving from passive devices towards semi-active, adaptive, and machine-learning-assisted design.Priorities identified include soil–structure-interaction-aware design, optimal placement and sizing of dampers, life-cycle and resilience-based cost assessment, and data-driven optimisation of hybrid configurations. These directions frame the motivation for the detailed comparative study reported subsequently by the authors.
Keywords
High-Rise Buildings, Shear Wall, Steel Bracing, Fluid Viscous Damper, Lateral Load, Seismic Response, Energy Dissipation, ETABS, Response-Spectrum Analysis, Hybrid Lateral System
How to cite this paper
@article{1719783,
author = {Alok Bhoyar, Dr. Rahul Kumar Satbhaiya},
title = {Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Structures with Combined Shear Wall, Bracing, and Damper Systems Under Lateral Loading: A Review},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2026},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
pages = {1226-1238},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1719783.pdf},
abstract = {The growth of high-rise construction in seismically active regions has made the control of the lateral response of buildings a governing design concern. Reinforced-concrete (RC) shear walls, steel bracing, and supplemental dampers are the three dominant strategies used to resist earthquake and wind actions, and increasingly they are combined into hybrid systems whose behaviour is evaluated numerically in finite-element platforms such as ETABS.This paper reviews the state of the art on the dynamic analysis of high-rise structures that combine shear walls, bracing, and damper systems under lateral loading. It compares the working mechanisms, analysis methods, and reported performance of these systems, and identifies the technologies and design methods that currently dominate the field.Across the reviewed studies a consistent pattern emerges: stiffness-based devices (walls and bracing) shorten the fundamental period and reduce displacement but attract larger inertial forces, whereas velocity-dependent dampers reduce drift, member forces, and floor acceleration without a comparable increase in stiffness. Hybrid wall–brace–damper systems combine these benefits, and response-spectrum and non-linear time-history analysis, together with the P-Delta effect, are the standard evaluation tools. Recent work is moving from passive devices towards semi-active, adaptive, and machine-learning-assisted design.Priorities identified include soil–structure-interaction-aware design, optimal placement and sizing of dampers, life-cycle and resilience-based cost assessment, and data-driven optimisation of hybrid configurations. These directions frame the motivation for the detailed comparative study reported subsequently by the authors.},
keywords = {High-Rise Buildings, Shear Wall, Steel Bracing, Fluid Viscous Damper, Lateral Load, Seismic Response, Energy Dissipation, ETABS, Response-Spectrum Analysis, Hybrid Lateral System},
month = {July},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV10I1-1719783}
}