Cladding Design for Tall Buildings
In the past twenty years, glass cladding has emerged as a popular and economic building material. Its use in tall buildings which are constructed in high-risk wind and seismic geographical...
The Atlantic Palace?Part II The Application of Wind Tunnel/Force Balance Techniques
A relatively new approach for determining overall wind-induced loads on a structure is described. This force balance technique is economical and flexible, and able to provide predictions...
The Atlantic Palace: Part I Structural System Selection Based on Wind Tunnel Testing
The location of the structure in a coastal area susceptible to high winds, the irregular shape and height of the building and the desire for more accurate wind loading and acceleration...
Structural Dynamics in Hurricanes and Tornadoes
The random fluctuations of wind gusts produce dynamic interaction with structures. The objectives of this paper are to identify distinguishing differences in hurricane and tornado winds...
Experimental Studies, Structural Design and Full-Scale Measurements for the Columbia Seafirst Center
The Columbia Seafirst Center is a 76-story office tower located in downtown Seattle, Washington. It rises to a height of about 940 feet above ground and is the world's 10th...
Comparison of Predicted and Measured Dynamic Behavior of Allied Bank Plaza
Structural engineering aspects of a monitoring program to measure Allied Bank Plaza tower's dynamic response to wind are presented. In particular, field data developed during...
Damping Systems to Limit the Motion of Tall Buildings
Two types of damping systems have been used successfully in building applications - the Tuned Mass Damper, and Viscoelastic Damping Units. In the past, Tuned Mass Dampers were used in...
Design of Viscoelastic Dampers for Columbia Center Building
To reduce the dynamic response of a building with a given height and plan area to wind load, aside from inherent damping of the building, the designer has a few options available to him/her....
Innovations in the Design of Electrical Transmission Structures
New concepts are being advanced for the design of electrical transmission structures. The papers in this book cover the following: weather-element loading conditions, structural options,...
Structural Design of Container Cranes
The shipping industry uses container cranes to move cargo containers on and off ships. Container cranes have characteristics common to all crane structures, but many characteristics are...
Dynamic Response of Structures
The primary goal of the third specialty conference on the dynamics of structures was to provide a forum for dialogue between engineers conducting experimental tests and those developing...
Building Motion in Wind
The trend towards higher structural efficiency and hence lower cost has resulted in a generation of lighter and more flexible buildings with a lower inherent capacity for energy dissipation...
Tunnel Ceiling Replaced over traffic
The ceiling of the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting New Jersey and Manhattan, was 59 years old and needed replacement, a big job because there are 3 miles of ceiling in...
Postmodern Engineering
Momentum Place is a postmodern skyscraper in Dallas designed by architects John Burgee and Philip Johnson. The Datum-Moore Partnership, structural engineers, designed the structural system...
Diamond Fork Hydroelectric Power Development
The Strawberry Valley Project was conceived in the early 1890s as an irrigation project to supply a maximum of 635 cfs of water from the Strawberry Reservoir through a 3. 8-mile-long tunnel...
Reservoir Sedimentation and Desilting in Taiwan
The island of Taiwan is infested with numerous flashy streams with steep slopes and huge sediment loads, thus, the major reservoirs have experienced heavy sediment deposit. The encroachment...
Air Slot in Tunnel Spillways of Feitsui Dam
The tunnel spillway of the Feitsui Reservoir Project near Taipei has a head drop of more than 110 m, and maximum discharge of 1,500 cms. For prevention of cavitation in the tunnel, an...
Simplified Prediction of Storm Surge on an Open Coast Using a Microcomputer
Computer-generated wind fields have a flexibility that is not available with standard manual procedure; i. e. different illustrative concepts can be given a trial run at low cost. A spreadsheet...
The Tunnel that Cleaned Up Chicago
The 1986 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award went to Chicago's Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) Mainstream Tunnel and Pumping Station. The $975 million project...
Tunneling Around Ft. McHenry
The world's largest underwater tunnel was built out of sight and sound of Ft. McHenry. The 4,000 ft tunnel needed to take I-95 from shore to shore had to be extended to 7,200...
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