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TOWER CRANE FOOTING

STRUCTURAL DESIGN REPORT

PROJECT: NORTHGATE RETAIL/OFFICE BUILDINGS

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27-12-2011 Date

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

CHAPTER I:
GENRALITES ........................................................................
................................ 3 OBJECT OF THE PRESENT
DOCUMENT ..........................................................................
.. 3 REFERENCE DRAWINGS &
DOCUMENTS .........................................................................
. 3 REFERENCES AND
CODES .............................................................................
.................... 3 MATERIALS
PROPERTIES ........................................................................
........................... 3 CHAPTER II: DESIGN
CALCULATIONS ......................................................................
.............. 5 DESIGN
CONCEPT ...........................................................................
.................................... 5 DESIGN
LOADS..............................................................................
....................................... 5 LOADING
COMBINATIONS ......................................................................
............................. 5 GEOMETRY OF CRANE
LEGS ..............................................................................
............... 5 OVER TURNING STABILITY
CALCULATIONS .....................................................................
5 CHECK SLIDING AND SOIL
CAPACITY...........................................................................
..... 7 CHECK
PUNCHING ..........................................................................
..................................... 8
REINFORCEMENT .....................................................................
........................................... 8

APPENDIX A ………………………………………………………………………………………………………14

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1.0 1.1

CHAPTER I: GENRALITES
OBJECT OF THE PRESENT DOCUMENT

The purpose of this document is to provide the final structural analysis and design
for the footing related to the tower crane in the considered project (Northgate
Retail/Office Buildings).

1.2

REFERENCE DRAWINGS & DOCUMENTS

The following drawings & documents have been used for establishing the final design
of the present structure: Foundation reaction forces Data sheet - Page 2-39 - For
52.0m height crane The above data sheets are attached. refer to appendix A. 1.3
REFERENCES AND CODES

The references of codes and standards are: - Qatar Construction Specification 2002
- BS 8110, 1997 Structural use of concrete - Code of practice For design and
Construction - BS 8004, 1986 Code of Practice for Foundations - BS449, 2005 steel
for the reinforcement of concrete

1.4

MATERIALS PROPERTIES

1.4.1 Concrete Concrete compressive strength (Cube) at 28days : - Blinding Concret

- footings C20/25 C32/40 20MPa 40MPa

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1.4.2 Reinforcement Steel bars of yield strength not less than 420MPa to be used
for longitudinal & transversal bars. This design is for an isolated tower crane
foundation. 1.4.3 Soil The allowable bearing capacity was taken 300KN/m2.

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CHAPTER II: DESIGN CALCULATIONS

DESIGN CONCEPT

• • • • 2.2

The footing dimensions was estimated based on over turning moment calculations with
factor of safty 1.5 Checking for Sliding stability and soil capacity. Checking for
Punching shear calculations for required reinforcement

DESIGN LOADS

As per manufacturer data sheet, the most critical design loads were considered for
the case of crane in operation as follows: Moment (Over turning) M=4908 KN.m
Horizontal force (Sliding) H=91KN gravity Load V=917 KN

2.3

LOADING COMBINATIONS

The given loads are mixed of dead loads, wind loads and live loads. However, a 1.5
ultimate factor can be considered as conservative load factor for concrete design.
2.4
GEOMETRY OF CRANE LEGS

The crane have a base dimensions with square shape of 1.98m side length. The fixing
leg of 1.4m length should be embedded with 1.13m inside the footing. This means
that the footing should has minimum thickness 1.40m.

2.5

OVER TURNING STABILITY CALCULATIONS

As per the figure below, the stability calculations were calculated as follows:

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Figure 1: Stability against over turning

assume h=1.50m ==> over turning moment MOT = 4908+91*1.5 = 5044.5 KN.m footing
weight = 25*1.5*L2 = 37.5L2 Stability moment = Mst = 917*L/2 + 37.5*L2*L/2 = 18.75
L3 + 458.5 L Use Factor of safty = F.O.S = 1.5 ==> 1.5=Mst / MOT ==> 18.75 L3 +
458.5 L - 7566.75 = 0 ==> L=6.5 m satisfy the equation.

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2.6

CHECK SLIDING AND SOIL CAPACITY

- Sliding: Sliding coefficient is equal =tan where =angle of internal friction ==>
30 = 0.57, Use 0.5 Sliding force = H = 91KN resisting force = (V+W)* =
(917+1584.375)*0.50 = 1250.7 >>91, OK - Soil capacity: soil stress = f = (V+W)/A ±
MOT/(L*L2/6) A=footing area=L2 ==> f= 2501.375/42.25 ± 4908/(6.53/6) = 59.2 ±
107.23 Negative value is rejected ==> use another approach. refer to figure 2.

=tan

Figure 2: soil stress calculations

e=MOT/(V+W) = 4908/2501.375 = 1.96 m ==> r=1.29 m 0.5f*(3r)*L = (V+W) ==>

0.5f*3.87*6.5=2501.375 ==> f=198.88 KN/m2 < 300KN/m2, OK
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2.7

CHECK PUNCHING

The fixing leg consists of several steel plates welded to the main shaft. Each
plate of 350x350mm dimensions. The maximum force act for punching is considered for
the case where the moments is diagonal on the footing. Fpunching = MOT/√(2*2.32)
+V/4 = 4908/3.25 + 917/4 = 1510.2+229.25=1739.45 KN fs= punching stress directly at
plate edge = 1.5*1739450/(4*350*d) where d=footing depth = 1500-65=1435mm ==>
fs=1.3MPa << 0.8√fcu=5MPa (BS8110-1:1997, clause 3.7.7.2) it is obvious that the
punching effect is very negligible.

2.8

REINFORCEMENT

For hign accuracy, the bending moment calculations were performed through finit
element analysis. Autodesk ROBOT structural analysis software was used for that
purpose. Note that only the large footing was considered (most critical) and the
reinforcement was applied to the small one. The acting forces on the crane legs
were calculated and applied to the model as follows: Compression side = M/2.3 + V/4
= 4908/2*2.3 + 917/4 = 1067+229.25=1296.25 KN Tension side = M/2.3 - V/4 =
4908/2*2.3 - 917/4 = 1067-229.25 =837.75 KN The fixing leg The following figures
represent the footing geometry with acting loads, soil stress (As a verification on
the manual calculations) and the service bending moments maps.

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Figure 3: acting forces on footing

Figure 4: Soil reaction

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Figure 5: Moment on footing

The ultimate bending moment = 347*1.5=520.5 KN.m/m ==> T25@200mm is sufficient as

per following data sheet extracted from ROBOT expert software.

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Section design for simple bending
1. Assumptions:
Concrete: fcu = 40.0 (MPa)
• Code: BS 8110

Reinforcing steel: fy = 420.0 (MPa)

2. Section:

b = 1000.0 (mm) h = 1500.0 (mm) ds = 75.0 (mm) d' = 75.0 (mm)

3. Applied loads:
Mmax (kN*m) at Ultimate Limite State 520.50 Mmin(kN*m) 0.00

4. Results:
Reinforcement: Theoretical area: As = 2264.3 (mm2) Reinforcement ratio: ρ ρmin ρmax
Case analysis: Case No 1: ULS M = 520.50 (kN*m) - not significant case = 0.16 (%) =
0.16 (%) = 4.00 (%) A's = 0.0 (mm2)

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APPENDIX A (Data sheets)

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