Tube Structural System Research Articles

Correlating Stiffness and Shear Lag Behavior with Brace Configuration of Tall Truss Tube Buildings

As the height of buildings increases, effect of shear lag also becomes considerable in the design of high rise buildings. In this paper, shear lag effect in tall buildings of heights, i.e., 120, 96, 72, 48 and 36 stories of which aspect ratio ranges from 3 to 10 is studied. Tube in tube structural system with façade bracing is used for designing the building of height 120 story. It is found that bracing system considerably reduces the shear lag effect and hence increases the building stiffness to withstand lateral loads. Different geometric patterns of the bracing system are considered. The best effective geometric configuration of a bracing system is concluded in this study. Lateral force, as wind load, is applied on the buildings as it is the most dominant lateral force for such heights. Wind load is set as per Indian standard code of Practice IS 875 Part 3. For analysis purposes, the SAP2000 software program is used.

Evaluation of Seismic Behavior in Building Tube Structures System with Respect to Dense Soil-Structure Interaction Effect

The perceiving local site effects on strong ground motion are particularly important for the mitigation of earthquake disasters as well as future earthquake resistant design. The primary objective of this study is to investigate seismic behavior of building tube structure system with respect to dense soil-structure interaction (sand dense and very hard clay soil with a thickness greater than 30 m). For this purpose, the studied building in this paper is placed over two other different modeled soil types and results of seismic behavior of building for three soil types are compared with each other. Through response spectrum analyses, influence of different sub-soils (dense and loose soil) was determined on seismic behavior of 40-storey building reinforced concrete (RC) with tube in tube structure system and performance of each model was assessed in terms of shear lag behavior, overall and critical (maximum) story drifts. Results illustrate that loose soils amplify seismic waves and increase building drifts and shear lag behavior.

Research on Design of Inner-Climbing Tower Crane Supporting System

Safety is essential for tower cranes in construction engineering, as the inner-climbing tower crane is widely used in the construction of high-rise structures, design safety, reliability and support system which can be turnover is an important prerequisite for protecting the safety of construction. By understanding the interrelationships between construction environment of Henglong Plaza Twin Towers in Shenyang city and ZSL2700 tower, the article will analyse the support system for the project. It mainly uses finite element analysis software ANSYS which can create mechanical status of modeling to analyzing the supporting structure. It can guarantee the structures rationality and the security reliability. Project Summary Shenyang municipal government square tower engineering which building height is 350.6m has the underground layer 4 and the ground 70 layer. The office building has used the frame core tube structure system. The outside frame is composed by the square shape section coagulation earth pyramid and the peripheral steel girder. The rectangular core tube was the reinforced concrete, while in the core tube outer wall has established some steel pole. This project adopt two boom tower cranes from Zhongsheng construct machine company (Nanjing).The first number tower crane is ZSL750, which maximum torque is 750tm; the second number tower cranes is ZSL2700. This paper takes the ZSL2700 tower crane as an object, studying this machines stressful condition of attachment system. The ZSL2700 tower cranes most high-torque is 2600tm, pitching arm angle ranges 85-65 .The maximum lifting load is 100t. The biggest hoisting up scope is 55m, which lifting load is 37.6t.When the crane surpasses the permission lifting load or the hoisting up moment of force, PLC can break the power implementation protection automatically. The tower machine need carry on 19 climbs in the construction process. Fig. 1 Two tower crane installation location diagram

Analysis and Design of Diagrid Structural System for High Rise Steel Buildings

Advances in construction technology, materials, structural systems and analytical methods for analysis and design facilitated the growth of high rise buildings. Structural design of high rise buildings is governed by lateral loads due to wind or earthquake. Lateral load resistance of structure is provided by interior structural system or exterior structural system. Usually shear wall core, braced frame and their combination with frames are interior system, where lateral load is resisted by centrally located elements. While framed tube, braced tube structural system resist lateral loads by elements provided on periphery of structure. It is very important that the selected structural system is such that the structural elements are utilized effectively while satisfying design requirements. Recently diagrid structural system is adopted in tall buildings due to its structural efficiency and flexibility in architectural planning. Compared to closely spaced vertical columns in framed tube, diagrid structure consists of inclined columns on the exterior surface of building. Due to inclined columns lateral loads are resisted by axial action of the diagonal compared to bending of vertical columns in framed tube structure. Diagrid structures generally do not require core because lateral shear can be carried by the diagonals on the periphery of building. Analysis and design of 36 storey diagrid steel building is presented. A regular floor plan of 36 m × 36 m size is considered. ETABS software is used for modeling and analysis of structural members. All structural members are designed as per IS 800:2007 considering all load combinations. Dynamic along wind and across wind are considered for analysis and design of the structure. Load distribution in diagrid system is also studied for 36 storey building. Similarly, analysis and design of 50, 60, 70 and 80 storey diagrid structures is carried out. Comparison of analysis results in terms of time period, top storey displacement and inter-storey drift is presented in this paper.

Super High-Rise Building (H =266m) of New Concrete Core Tube and Assembly Integral Spatial Steel Grid Cassette Tube in Tube Hybrid Structure Research and Design

With the development of economy and society, urban construction rose to a new level in China. High-rise and super high-rise building increase rapidly. In the high-rise and super high-rise buildings (H≥150 m), the structural system usually adopts the conventional reinforced concrete, including frame tube structure, tube in tube structure, steel frame with reinforced concrete core tube hybrid structure and tube in tube steel - concrete mixed structure. These traditional structural systems often lead to the problems of fat beam fat column and high expenditure, which is not economic and unfriendly to the environment. This paper not only presents a new type of concrete core wall and prefabricated space steel grid cassette tube in tube structure system, but also discusses the superiority of the new type structure through the innovation and practice of a super high (266 m) five-star hotel and office building integrated engineering construction.

Seismic Performance Research of High-Rise Diagrid Tube-Core Tube Structures

Diagrid tube structure system has advantages on constructing high-rise buildings due to its great stiffness, however, its seismic performance analysis are limited. 10 CFST diagrid tube-concrete core tube structures are analyzed by Mode-Pushover method using Perform-3D program. The plasticity developing process and components yield order are summarized. The force distribution between diagrid and core tubes is researched and the force redistribution reason is explained from the change of diagrid tube forces. The structure lateral stiffness degradation is discussed based on the developing process of diagrid and core tubes lateral stiffness. The influences of main lateral stiffness related factors on the structure plasticity developing process, force distribution and stiffness change of the tubes are discussed at last.