THE VIDEO SHELF · tuned mass dampers
Taipei 101 Damper movement on 12 May 08
Tourist footage of the 660-ton tuned mass damper in Taipei 101 swaying during tremors from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The damper hangs from the 92nd floor.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended whenever skyscraper dampers come up, since it shows how huge the moving mass is.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- phuaalvin
- Topic
- tuned mass dampers
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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The first I had heard of a tuned mass damper was in the installation on Taipei 101. There's a good video of it moving that gives you an idea of just how colossal these things are: [VIDEO]
jwise0 on Hacker News · 2014-04
In The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC SkyscraperThis damper movement video was really incredible to see [VIDEO] The small scale demos just don't do it justice. [LINK]
sosuke on Hacker News · 2015-06
In How Much Do Skyscrapers Actually Move?It's not a DC, but Taipei 101 has a mass damper, and there's a video of it swaying during an earthquake. Really impressive how much that things moves! [VIDEO]
prewett on Hacker News · 2017-05
In Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthquake disaster [video]
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