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Designing For Long Spans-2 PDF
Designing For Long Spans-2 PDF
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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