CIE 5154 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF TALL STRUCTURES [3 1 0 4]

Design criteria, design philosophy, loading, sequential loading, and materials high
performance concrete, fiber reinforced concrete, light weight concrete.
Structural planning of tall buildings, floor systems, dead loads, live loads,
earthquake load and wind load on buildings, building frames, shear walls, frame-
shear wall interaction, tubular structures, outriggers, braced and hybrid mega
system. Approximate analysis of framed structure and framed with shear wall
structures for lateral loads on buildings. Temperature stress in buildings, high mast
towers pylons and their supporting structures; chimneys, foundation of tall
structures.
References:
1. Bungale S. Taranath, Structural Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings, McGraw
2. Hill. G.M. Pinfold, Reinforced Concrete Chimneys and Towers, View point
publisher.
3. Bryan Statford Smith and Alex Coull, Tall building structures-
4. Analysis and Design, John Wiley and Sons.
Introduction to Tall Buildings

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa (55.86 m) was built in 1372, using The Eiffel Tower is a 320-m-high steel
marble stone in a Romanesque style. Its current leaning structure that was completed in 1889 as the
appearance is due to sub-soil settlement. entrance arch for that years Worlds Fair.

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The 90-m-high Royal Liver Building in
Liverpool was one of the first concrete buildings
in the world. It was completed in 1911 after a
Neoclassical design by Walter A. Thomas.
Chowells Wikipedia User

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The 36-storey Equitable Building in New York was completed in
1915. Its architect, Ernest R. Graham, used
a Neoclassical style despite the buildings modernity: it
was the first building equipped with elevators. It triggered the
implementation of height limits and setbacks for tall buildings to
allow sunlight to reach street level.
The modernist Wainwright Building in St. Louis was
completed in 1891 by architects Dankmar Adler &
Louis Sullivan. Its 10-storey are supported by an early
steel framing system.