Everything about Outrigger

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OutriggerA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Frequency independent damped outrigger systems for multi‐mode seismic control of super tall buildings with frequency independent negative stiffness enhancementInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Building Outrigger Sailing CanoesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The damped outrigger concept for tall buildingsCited 235 times
5. Go sideways: Outrigger boatA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Outline of sailingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The damped outrigger concept for tall buildings

  Rob J. Smith, Michael R. Willford · 2007 · The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings · 235 citations

• Parameter Study of Outrigger-Braced Tall Building Structures

  B. Stafford Smith, Irawan Salim · 1981 · Journal of the Structural Division · 98 citations

• Outrigger tuned inertial mass electromagnetic transducers for high-rise buildings subject to long period earthquakes

  Takehiko Asai, Yuta Watanabe · 2017 · Engineering Structures · 88 citations

• Dynamic Characteristics and Responses of Damped Outrigger Tall Buildings Using Negative Stiffness

  Meng Wang, Satish Nagarajaiah, Fei-Fei Sun · 2020 · Journal of Structural Engineering · 87 citations

• Structural performance of multi‐outrigger‐braced tall buildings

  J. R. Wu, Q. S. Li · 2003 · The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings · 86 citations

• Optimization of damped outrigger systems subject to stochastic excitation

  Chuangjie Fang, Billie F. Spencer, Jiaqi Xu · 2019 · Engineering Structures · 83 citations

• Multi-objective optimal design and seismic performance of negative stiffness damped outrigger structures considering damping cost

  Fei-Fei Sun, Meng Wang, Satish Nagarajaiah · 2021 · Engineering Structures · 80 citations

• Seismic performance of a damping outrigger system for tall buildings

  Ying Zhou, Cuiqiang Zhang, Xilin Lu · 2016 · Structural Control and Health Monitoring · 67 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Frequency independent damped outrigger systems for multi‐mode seismic control of super tall buildings with frequency independent negative stiffness enhancement

  Meng Wang, Fei‐Fei Sun, Yuji Koetaka · 2023 · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics · 64 citations

• Comparative study between inerter and negative stiffness damped outrigger structures

  Zhihao Wang, Jingwen Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou · 2024 · International Journal of Mechanical Sciences · 36 citations

• Dynamic Test of Negative Stiffness Damped Outrigger With Damping Amplification

  Meng Wang, Yuji Koetaka, Fei‐Fei Sun · 2025 · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics · 36 citations

• Stochastic Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis of the Combined Negative Stiffness Damped Outrigger and Conventional Damped Outrigger Systems Subjected to Nonstationary Seismic Excitation

  Zhihao Wang, Yuxiang Zhou, Chuangjie Fang · 2023 · Structural Control and Health Monitoring · 33 citations

• DNN-metamodeling and fragility estimate of high-rise buildings with outrigger systems subject to seismic loads

  Lili Xing, Paolo Gardoni, Ying Zhou · 2025 · Reliability Engineering & System Safety · 32 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Building Outrigger Sailing CanoesGary Dierking · 2007
• 📕An outrigger canoe hull from Te Horo, Western WellingtonTerence Barrow · 1966
• 📕The outrigger canoes of IndonesiaHornell, James · 1920
• 📕The oru and the yātrāVinī Vitāraṇa · 1992
• 📕Introduction of new outrigger canoes in IndonesiaG. Pajot · 1993
• VakaDavis, Thomas R. A. H · 1992
• 📕Les pirogues à balancier des îles du sud du VanuatuBergmans Iati · 2012
• Outrigger canoes of Bali and Madura, IndonesiaG. Adrian Horridge · 1987

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