Design of Tall Buildings

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Be introduced to different types of tall building structure
• Recognize the gravitational and lateral loads acting on a tall building
• Understand the collapse patterns and buckling for a tall structure
• Apply this knowledge in designing high-rise buildings and perform the preliminary analysis

Description
Assist engineers in tackling the design challenge; this introductory course is devoted to developing an understanding of the behaviour of structural systems.

This course will discuss the nature of loads and their effect on structural systems that pave the way for our understanding of structural behaviour and allow the designer to match structural systems to specific types of loading. For example, designers of tall buildings, recognizing the cost premium for carrying lateral loads by frame action alone, can select a more appropriate system, such as a belt and outrigger wall or a tubular system instead. Engineers designing for intense earthquakes, knowing that building structures must sustain gravity loads at large deformations, can select moment frames and/or shear walls with ductile connections to provide for the deformation capacity.

The course guides designers and engineers in selecting the most suitable structure system for tall building design and performing preliminary calculations using Canadian and international building codes.

Who Should Attend
Municipal, Provincial, & Federal Government Engineers & Managers • Bridge Engineers • Structural Engineers • Design Engineers • Engineers in Training • Construction Personnel • Consulting Engineers • Project Engineers

Tall Building Design Concept

Introduction to Tall Buildings

• External Loads
• Lateral Load-Resisting Systems
• Shear Walls
• Coupled Shear Walls
• Moment Resistant Frames
• Dual Systems
• Diaphragm
• Collapse Patterns
• Earthquake Collapse Patterns
• Collapse due to wind storm
• Explosion Effects
• Progressive Collapse
• Buckling Of A Tall Building Under Its Own Weight

Gravity Systems

• Floor Systems
• Flat Plates
• Flat Slabs
• Waffle Systems
• One-way Concrete Ribbed Slabs
• Band Beam System
• Haunch Girder and Joist System
• Beam and Slab System
• One-Way Slab Hand Calculations
• Post Tension Simple Span Beam
• Cost of Floor System

Foundation

• Pile Foundation
• Mat Foundation

Lateral Load-Resisting Systems

Human Perception of Movements

• Flat Slab-Frame System
• Flat Slab-Frame With Shear Walls
• Core Structures
• Shear Wall System With Belt Truss
• Coupled Shear Walls
• Rigid Frame
• Tube System With Widely Spaced Columns
• Rigid Frame With Haunch Girders
• Core-Supported Structures
• Shear Wall–Frame Interaction
• Frame Tube System

Wind Loads

• Design Considerations
• Natural Wind
• Characteristics Of Wind
• Case Study
• Wind-Tunnels

Seismic Design

• Building Behavior
• Seismic Design Concept
• Structure system selection
• Case Study

Creep, Shrinkage and Temperature Effects