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Design of Tall Structures: Pooja H A
Design of Tall Structures: Pooja H A
POOJA H A
INTRODUCTION
Tall buildings
Tall Buildings as defined by Council On Tall Buildings And Urban Habitat
• The entire structure, or any part of it, is considered as having “ failed” when it
reaches any one of the limit states
• Two types of limit state that must be considered in the design are:
• Ultimate limit states.
• Serviceability limit states.
• The ultimate limit states corresponding to the loads to cause failure, including
stability : since events associated with collapse would be catastrophic, endangering
lives and causing serious financial losses, the probability of failure must be very low.
• The serviceability limit states, which involve the criteria governing the service life of
the building . Since the consequences are not catastrophic, a higher probability of
occurrence is permitted.
A particular limit state may be reached as a result of an adverse
combination of random conditions .
Forces will depend on the size and shape of the building, and its
location.
In addition, each floor has an index called the inter- storey drift
index which checks for localized excessive deformation.
Threshold curves are available that give various limits for human
behaviour , ranging from motion perception through work difficulty
to ambulatory limits, in terms of acceleration and period.
Except dead loads, the assessment of loads can not be done accurately.
Dead loads due the weight of every element within the structure
as well as live loads that are acting on the structure when in service
constitute gravity loads.
The dead loads are calculated from the member sizes and
estimated material densities.
2 10
3 20
4 30
5-10 40
Over 10 50
IMPACT GRAVITY LOADING
An increase of 100% of the static elevator load has usually been
used to give a satisfactory performance of the supporting structure.
CONSTRUCTION LOADS
Construction loads are often claimed to be the most sever loads that
a building has to withstand
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