In many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, there’s a secret device protecting the building and the people inside from strong motion due to wind and earthquakes. Did you know you can tune a skyscraper ...

Taiwan's tallest skyscraper's is standing strong after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the island nation, killing nine people and injuring at least 946 others on Wednesday. The Taipei 101 building, ...

The Taipei 101 skyscraper (left) and the tuned mass damper inside it (right).Annice Lyn/Getty Images, Richard Chung/Reuters A 660-ton steel sphere hangs between the 87th and 92nd floors of Taiwan's ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) said on the 2nd that it has developed a “stiffness-adjustable tuned mass damper (TMD) technology” that can be easily installed ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 45, No. 5 (October 2021), pp. 1082-1100 (19 pages) The lack of aerodynamic damping of wind turbine blades in the edgewise direction causes larger dynamic responses and lowers ...