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A mass driver is an electromagnetic accelerator, probably miles in length, that would use pulsed magnetic fields to accelerate payloads to orbital or near-orbital velocity.
The advantage of a mass driver is that the accelerating device and its source of energy remain on Earth for reuse, rather than accompanying a spacecraft into space.
A four degree-of-freedom scaled (1 300) model of a high-rise building equipped with active mass driver is constructed on a wind tunnel to experimentally verify its applicability for wind-induced along-wind motion.
Mass drivers are based on the coilgun design, adapted to accelerate a non-magnetic object.
One application O'Neill proposed for mass drivers was to throw baseball-sized chunks of ore mined from the surface of the Moon into space.
"The car driver is actually using mass transit, if we stretch the definition of 'use.' Without a robust transit system, the road would be so jammed that driving would be nightmarish.
The wind loads acting on the building are defined by the results of wind tunnel tests conducted at the Sydney University and an active mass driver can be designed for installation on the top floor in order to reduce the structural response under strong wind gusts.
The mass driver concept was given the most attention during the 1970s and '80s by American physicist Gerard O'Neill and his colleagues as part of his proposal to build large orbital space colonies.
Another driver is identifying potential uses for land masses, where a low GDP is affecting communities in those areas.
Another one of the many benefits of a space elevator/space gun/launch loop/ space fountain/mass driver is that we don't need to take as much time or money making sure each individual mission will work perfectly and could afford more screw ups.
In this paper, a four degree-of-freedom scaled (1 300) model of a high-rise building equipped with an active mass driver (AMD) system is constructed in a wind tunnel to experimentally verify effects of the wind attack angle on performance of actively controlled wind-induced motion.
