# Wind-Induced Response Control of High-Rise Buildings Using Inerter-Based Vibration Absorbers  
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1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China; [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (Q.W. ); [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (H.Q. ); [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (Z.Z.) [PERSON]  
1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China; [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (Q.W. ); [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (H.Q. ); [EMAIL_ADDRESS] (Z.Z.) [PERSON]  
3 Department of Engineering, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy  
3 State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China; [EMAIL_ADDRESS]  
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4 Correspondence: [EMAIL_ADDRESS]; Tel. : +39-090-67659214  
responses [2; 3; 4; 5; 6]. However, methods of structural modification sometimes limit the usage of building space (setback of cross-section) [7]. As an alternative, installation of passive vibration control devices, e.g., fluid-viscous dampers [8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13], Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) [14; 15], Multi Tuned Mass Damper (MTMD) [16] distributed TMD [17; 18], and Tuned Liquid Column Damper (TLCD) [19; 20; 21], was widely used to suppress wind-induced responses. Other attractive and effective implementations of un-conventional TMD schemes were also recently proposed that take advantage from claddings and facades in buildings [22; 23]. Further researches based on the wind tunnel test [14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31] and full-scale monitoring [27; 32] were performed to evaluate the mitigation effect of TMD on wind-induced responses. It is widely recognized that the effectiveness of TMD to mitigate vibrations depends heavily on its mass. In general, the larger the attached TMD mass that can be accommodated, the more effective and robust the TMD becomes for vibration control [33; 34; 35]. However, the attached mass of TMD in high-rise buildings rarely exceeds 0.5% of the total primary mass because of structural and architectural constraints in practical projects [36]. For example, TMD systems of Ping-An Finance Center in Shenzhen City, China, have a weight of 1000 t including mass blocks and supporting-frame structures [37]. The mass of TMD installed in Taipei 101 Tower reaches 660 t. It has the diameter of 6 m and occupies the space from the 87 th to 91 st floor, including the supporting cables [38]. The TMD not only occupies valuable space of top floors of high-rise buildings but also increases construction cost because of its enormous mass. Motivated by these practical aspects, inerter-based vibration absorbers, e.g., TID and TMDI, were recently proposed to mitigate the vibrations of structure. [PERSON] et al. [39; 40] presented a novel inerter-based vibration absorber system termed as tuned inerter damper (TID). The TID takes advantage of the \"mass amplification effect\" of the inerter, a two-terminal device of negligible mass/weight whose internal force can reasonably be assumed proportional to the relative acceleration of its two terminals [41]. Acting as an additional, apparent mass, the inerter can modify the inertial properties of the system. Therefore, the TID represents a lower-mass and more effective alternative to the TMD, as it can achieve comparable or even higher vibration suppression level by significantly reducing the attached mass. [PERSON] and [PERSON] [42] unified both TMD and TID scheme by proposing an effective passive control system termed Tuned Mass-Damper-Inerter (TMDI). The TMDI scheme will degenerate into TMD and TID by decreasing the inertance ratio and mass ratio to zero, respectively. Most of the recent research has been directed towards optimal design and performance evaluation of inerter-based systems for seismic protection of building structures [39; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51], wind turbine towers [52] and storage tanks [53], for vibration suppression of cables [40], and for mitigation of vortex-induced vibration in long-span bridges [54].