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Designing For Long Spans
Designing For Long Spans
complex Structure
Dead load
Live load
Wind load
Stress created by temperature differences
Stress created by other form of disruption
including ground movement, vibration,
deformation or earthquake
active systems
z Vector active systems
z Section active systems
z Surface active systems
Beam-grid systems
Slab structures
Hinged
frame
structures
Folded plate
Multi-bay
structures
Shell structures
Examples of
shell structures
Development History of
Long Span Structure
Vaulted ceiling
Toronto Tower
The Skydome
Openable roof
The Skydome
Charles-de-Gaulle
International Airport, France,
completed in 1998
Erecting the steel trusses for the Superdome, the towering structures
in majority are the temporary supporting to facilitate the erection
A pneumatic exhibition
hall in a construction plant
expo in Les Vegas, USA
The
Hamburg
Airport, UK
Roof plan/detail of
the Stuttgart
Terminal Building
Example in China
Guangzhou Olympus Stadium
Tie systems
Enlarged details
of the Tie systems
Laying of the
roof deck
Semi-cladded roof
underside
Hoisting of the
80m-span roof
truss
Linking structure
between Phase I and II
of the HK Convention
and Exhibition Centre
The Arch in
Kowloon Station
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