Operational modal analysis and continuous dynamic monitoring of high‐rise building based on wireless distributed synchronized data acquisition system

The paper mainly reports the structural dynamic behaviors of a skyscraper under operational conditions based on a wireless distributed synchronized data acquisition (WDSA) system. First, the WDSA system is developed to conveniently acquire the structural responses from a large and complex structure with the unified Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time information. The phase synchronization accuracy of the WDSA method is validated by comparing the modal parameters estimated by both wired central data acquisition (WCA) and the WDSA systems. Subsequently, the dynamic properties of a skyscraper are presented by performing operational modal analysis (OMA) based on the proposed WDSA system. Finally, the WDSA‐based continuous dynamic monitoring system is further developed to capture the long‐term structural responses at different spatial positions. The structural dynamic behaviors of the skyscraper under normal wind, typhoon and earthquake conditions are reported. The structural “whiplash effect” under both normal wind and earthquake conditions are characterized by the acceleration‐based accumulated contribution factor.