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ACCE BULLETIN
Vol. 8
ABOUT COVER PAGE
Winner of the ACCE SARVAMANGALA AWARD 2009 for Excellence in Construction of Civil Engineering Projects awarded to B.G. Shirke Construction Technology Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore for Excellence in Construction of
VIDHANA SOUDHA SOUTH BLOCK (Vikasa Soudha)
The magnificent Vidhana Soudha is the largest legislature cum secretariat building in the countr with around 6.4 lakh sq. ft. of area. This building could not house all the elected MLAs in this one building. It was Shri S.M. Krishna, Ex-Chief Minister, who decided and finalized the Vidhana Soudha South Block to be constructed with a built up area of around 6.00 lakh sq.ft. VSSB was later rechristened as Vikasa Soudha. The Vikasa Soudha was planned and executed by the Karnataka Public Works Department. The building was planned to match the existing building in total. The Vikasa Soudha is situated just adjacent to the Vidhana Soudha in the heart of the city; the state secretariat building is essentially Indian in style. It is built mainly ont he union of Dravidian, Rajasthani, Chola and Kannada Style of architecture, which evolved in India. The ornamental motifs, floral patterns and chiselled geometric designs are all distinct and not a single design has been repeated. All the door and windows are with teak wood. The floral motifs of the stone-carvings are Dravidian in style and are drawn entirel from the temple - craft of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Thus the Vidhana soudha and Vikasa soudha showcase the best of South Indias Indegeneous architectural styles.
The stone structure is built entirely with the granite executed from the vicinity of Hesaraghatta, Mallasandra, Avalahalli, Koira Quarries. The grand entrance of the Vikasa Soudha faces the Attara Kacheri (now called the High Court) another imposing structure and the cubbon park. Around 3000 labourers and 1,500 sculptors were deployed for the proejct under a team of dynamic engineers from B.G. Shirke Construction Technology Pvt. Ltd. and the Karnataka Government PWD. The Total sone used for this project is about 4.00 lakhs c.ft. The entire building of Vikasa Soudha covers an area of 638068.00 sq. ft. of built up area. The building consists of three basements for car parking (each of 7958 sq. mt.) a around floor and 4 floors above with 6880 sq.mt. in each floor. On the eastern side a porch with 8 tall decorated cylindrical granite columns of 40 ft. in height. Granite stones of different colours found in and around Bangalore were used for the building. The buildings four corners have four towers, supporting domes topped by metallic Kalashas. This is the only Government building having the following features : Sub surface drainage system. The excess water from the sub surface flows to the Cubbon park.
No. 4 CONTENTS
Presidents Message ...................................... 4 From Secretary Generals Desk ........................ 5 From the Editorial Desk .................................... 5 Slurry Infiltrated Fibrous Concrete (SIFCON) -an Experimental Study ..................................... 6 Rethinking Sustainability ................................. 11 The New Lightweight Structure Tensairity ........ 13 Review and Design of Flat Plate/ Slabs Construction in India ............................. 17 Tall SustainabilityAn Urban Imperative ......... 21 Events at Glance ............................................ 29 Infrastructure Health Monitoring for Management .............................................. 37 Role of Admixtures role Admixtures. ............... 44 When Structures Move .................................... 48 News From ACCE (I) Headquarters ................ 54 News From ACCE (I) Centres .......................... 54 Forthcoming Events ........................................ 56 ACCE (I) Membership Additions ...................... 56 Professional Directory ................................... 57 Thanks to Patrons ....................................... 58
Solar power of 100 KW. Fire fighting system Air Conditioning Two nos Capsule Lifts along with six passenger lifts. Pedestrian subway connecting south side of Vidhana Soudha and North side of Vikasa Soudha. Trenchless excavation to drain out excess water fromthe sub surface to Cubbon Park
Bulletin Committee
Chairman : Dr. M. N. Hegde National Advisors : D. Ranganth, Nir mal Prasad A, Dr. R. Jagadish, Dr. Manamohan R. Kalgal, Dr. V. Ramachandra, B.S.C. Rao, Ajit Sabnis, Avinash Shirode, Srinivasan S.P ., Moorthy K.G.K., S.N. Karnik, Jain L.K, N.R. Ashok, Ratnavel S. Technical Editors : Industry Prof. T. Senthilnayagam, R. Srinivasan, S. K. Jain, V. P. Ponnuswami, Tigadi N. S, H. V. Manjunathaswamy, Mukund Kamath, R. K. Desai Technical Editors : Academic Institutions Dr. Sharada Bai, Dr. R. V. Ranganath, Dr. M. C. Nataraja, Dr. D. S. Prakash, Dr. M. U. Aswath, Dr. R. N. Pranesh Secretaries of all Centres (Ex-Officio Members)
Printed and published by Dr. M.N. Hegde on behalf of the Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India) and printed at Vijayanataraj Printart Industries, S.C. Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560 004 and published at 2, UVCE Alumni Association Building, K R Circle, Bangalore 560 001. Editor: Dr. M.N. Hegde MAG(3)/NPP/166/2003-04, CMM/BNG/DELL/PP/156/21-2002
PRESIDENTs MESSAGE
Dear Members, It has been pleasure being President of ACCE for the tenure year 2007-2009.It gave avery good opportunity of meeting members at various centers during Govrnning Council meetings, seminars, technical meets or associated functions. It was always very warm welcome,great hospitality and very homely but very meticulously planned and executed programmes along with appropriate topics and technical contents. I enjoyed this term and will be cherished all along. I am thankfull to all of you for the cortsey extended to me. Ensuing year is our silver jubilee year and we need to celebrate it in befitting manner.May be by holding technical meets,workshops,seminars,round table conference even places we do not have centers. These location can be in the proximity of existing centers or in that region. The topics can be of interest to suit considering requirments locally, regionally, nationally. I am of the opinion that one issue which is of national importance is trainnig of personal involved such as designers,software for analysis,engineering,design,detailing,quantity survey etc. We also need to interact, collabrate, cooperate with educational institutes, NGO, youngsters to upgrade knowledge as well generate interest to learn and train to perform better. Engineer Avinash Shirode, Nashik, is the President elect for the next term. He is a versitle person and has been very actively involved not just on engineering proffession but on matter of engineering societies. I am sure he will take ACCE (I) to much higher heights. This will be the last bulletin in which I will be addressing as President. Hope to see all of you at Davangere for the AGM and installation of New Team. Wishing you good bye and all the best in your profession. UMESH B RAO
President- ACCE(I)
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The technique of infiltrating layers of steel fibres with Portland cement based materials was first reported by Haynes [1968]. Lankard [1979] modified the method used by Haynes and proved that if the percentage of steel fibres in a cement matrix could be increased, one could get a material with very high strength properties which he named as SIFCON. Later he extended the application of SIFCON to refractories [1982]. The engineering properties of SIFCON along with a number of successful applications were again investigated by Lankard and Newell [1984]. Homrich and Naaman [1987] studied its stress strain properties in compression. Naaman [1987] also investigated the use of SIFCON in connection with seismic resistance frames. Parameswaran et al [1990] investigated the behaviour of SIFCON under impact, abrasion on flexural loads. They also studied the feasibility of different ways of making SIFCON and measured their relative toughness characteristics [1991]. SIFCON has already been successfully used abroad for the construction of structures subjected to impact, blast & dynamic loading and also for refractive applications, overlays and repairs of structural components because
40 mm
50 mm
60 mm
mm and 300 height and the cubes are cast in steel moulds of inner dimensions of 150 x 150 x 150 mm. For all test specimen moulds are kept on table vibrator the moulds are filled with fibre in random manner of calculated volume. For each percentage of fibre and for each aspect ratio of fibres 3 cubes and 3 cylinders were cast. After placing the fibres in the moulds the slurry was poured into the fibre bed and vibrations were effected by table vibrator. The vibration was effected for 2 minutes, for each mould and it is maintained constant for all the specimens. 4.4 Testing of specimens After curing the specimens in water for a period of 7 and 28 days they were allowed to dry under shade and then white washed. The specimens were tested for compression and split tensile strength. Compression Test: The test results are tabulated for 7 and 28 days in table 4.2.and 4.3. The variations of the cube compressive strength for the three types of aspect ratios versus volume percentage of fibres are shown in figures 4.2.and 4.3. Split tensile strength test: The tensile strength of concrete is calculated using the formula 2P/ (3.14 D x L) where P=maximum load, L=length of cylinder and = diameter of cylinder. Split tensile strengths for all cylinders tested were furnished in the table no: 4.4. The variations of the split tensile strengths for the aspect ratio of fibres (40, 50, and 60) versus volume percentage of fibres are shown in fig.4.4 Modulus of elasticity test: The typical stress stain relations are shown in figures: 4.5 to 5.3. The modulus of elasticity was determined at 30% of ultimate strength of cylindrical specimen. It was observed that the linearity between stress and strain exhibits up to 30% ultimate April - June 2009
strength. The modulus of elasticity values determined in this investigation is furnished in table no: 4.5. The failure load was taken as cylindrical strength of the specimen. The modulus of elasticity is determined by taking initial tangent modulus for each percentage of fibre and for each aspect ratio of the fibre. 4.5. General observations: It was observed in compression tests that the plain concrete cubes failed suddenly in a brittle manner where as the SIFCON cubes produced significant cracks with increase in the post cracking strength. In the case of cylinders it was observed the top and bottom surfaces of plain concrete cylinders were crushed where as in the SIFCON no such crushing was observed which is an indication of the ductility of slurry infiltrated fibrous concrete.
pertain to the use of straight steel fibres. The higher compressive strength may be obtained using higher volume of fibre and 1/d ratio, provided with good bond between matrixes. SIFCON exhibits extremely high ductility An increase in fibre length leads to an increase in both compressive strength and tensile strength. At constant fibre length compressive strength is directly proportional to the volume fraction of fibres. It may be noted that after a certain fibre loading the bond strength goes down because of lack of matrix presence in between the fibres. The relation between compressive strength and tensile strength for different aspect ratios is linear.
Table 4.2 Cube compressive strength of tested specimens: 7 Days For plain concrete (1:1.5:3) mix Compressive strength = 46.67 N/mm2
Sy Percentage No of Fibre Fibre Length 40mm Fibre Length 50mm Fibre Lengths 60mm
Average Ultimate Compressive Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 1 2 3 6 8 12 92.5 95 99 40.5 42 43.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 100 102 111 44.3 45 48.3 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 111 113 119 49.8 50.3 54
Table 4.3 Cube compressive strength of tested specimens: 28 Days For plain concrete (1:1.5:3) mix Compressive strength = 46.67 N/mm2
Sy Percentage No of Fibre Fibre Length 40mm Fibre Length 50mm Fibre Lengths 60mm
Average Ultimate Compressive Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 1. 2. 3. 6 8 12 104 106 112 46 47 49.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 108.5 110 114.5 48.5 49 51.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 116 51.5 118 52.5 125.5 55.5
6.0 CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions: From the limited tests conducted, the following tentative conclusions can be drawn based on the results presented. It should be noted that the results Bulletin of ACCE (I) 8
PRESIDENTs MESSAGE
Dear Members, It has been pleasure being President of ACCE for the tenure year 2007-2009.It gave avery good opportunity of meeting members at various centers during Govrnning Council meetings, seminars, technical meets or associated functions. It was always very warm welcome,great hospitality and very homely but very meticulously planned and executed programmes along with appropriate topics and technical contents. I enjoyed this term and will be cherished all along. I am thankfull to all of you for the cortsey extended to me. Ensuing year is our silver jubilee year and we need to celebrate it in befitting manner.May be by holding technical meets,workshops,seminars,round table conference even places we do not have centers. These location can be in the proximity of existing centers or in that region. The topics can be of interest to suit considering requirments locally, regionally, nationally. I am of the opinion that one issue which is of national importance is trainnig of personal involved such as designers,software for analysis,engineering,design,detailing,quantity survey etc. We also need to interact, collabrate, cooperate with educational institutes, NGO, youngsters to upgrade knowledge as well generate interest to learn and train to perform better. Engineer Avinash Shirode, Nashik, is the President elect for the next term. He is a versitle person and has been very actively involved not just on engineering proffession but on matter of engineering societies. I am sure he will take ACCE (I) to much higher heights. This will be the last bulletin in which I will be addressing as President. Hope to see all of you at Davangere for the AGM and installation of New Team. Wishing you good bye and all the best in your profession. UMESH B RAO
President- ACCE(I)
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The technique of infiltrating layers of steel fibres with Portland cement based materials was first reported by Haynes [1968]. Lankard [1979] modified the method used by Haynes and proved that if the percentage of steel fibres in a cement matrix could be increased, one could get a material with very high strength properties which he named as SIFCON. Later he extended the application of SIFCON to refractories [1982]. The engineering properties of SIFCON along with a number of successful applications were again investigated by Lankard and Newell [1984]. Homrich and Naaman [1987] studied its stress strain properties in compression. Naaman [1987] also investigated the use of SIFCON in connection with seismic resistance frames. Parameswaran et al [1990] investigated the behaviour of SIFCON under impact, abrasion on flexural loads. They also studied the feasibility of different ways of making SIFCON and measured their relative toughness characteristics [1991]. SIFCON has already been successfully used abroad for the construction of structures subjected to impact, blast & dynamic loading and also for refractive applications, overlays and repairs of structural components because
40 mm
50 mm
60 mm
mm and 300 height and the cubes are cast in steel moulds of inner dimensions of 150 x 150 x 150 mm. For all test specimen moulds are kept on table vibrator the moulds are filled with fibre in random manner of calculated volume. For each percentage of fibre and for each aspect ratio of fibres 3 cubes and 3 cylinders were cast. After placing the fibres in the moulds the slurry was poured into the fibre bed and vibrations were effected by table vibrator. The vibration was effected for 2 minutes, for each mould and it is maintained constant for all the specimens. 4.4 Testing of specimens After curing the specimens in water for a period of 7 and 28 days they were allowed to dry under shade and then white washed. The specimens were tested for compression and split tensile strength. Compression Test: The test results are tabulated for 7 and 28 days in table 4.2.and 4.3. The variations of the cube compressive strength for the three types of aspect ratios versus volume percentage of fibres are shown in figures 4.2.and 4.3. Split tensile strength test: The tensile strength of concrete is calculated using the formula 2P/ (3.14 D x L) where P=maximum load, L=length of cylinder and = diameter of cylinder. Split tensile strengths for all cylinders tested were furnished in the table no: 4.4. The variations of the split tensile strengths for the aspect ratio of fibres (40, 50, and 60) versus volume percentage of fibres are shown in fig.4.4 Modulus of elasticity test: The typical stress stain relations are shown in figures: 4.5 to 5.3. The modulus of elasticity was determined at 30% of ultimate strength of cylindrical specimen. It was observed that the linearity between stress and strain exhibits up to 30% ultimate April - June 2009
strength. The modulus of elasticity values determined in this investigation is furnished in table no: 4.5. The failure load was taken as cylindrical strength of the specimen. The modulus of elasticity is determined by taking initial tangent modulus for each percentage of fibre and for each aspect ratio of the fibre. 4.5. General observations: It was observed in compression tests that the plain concrete cubes failed suddenly in a brittle manner where as the SIFCON cubes produced significant cracks with increase in the post cracking strength. In the case of cylinders it was observed the top and bottom surfaces of plain concrete cylinders were crushed where as in the SIFCON no such crushing was observed which is an indication of the ductility of slurry infiltrated fibrous concrete.
pertain to the use of straight steel fibres. The higher compressive strength may be obtained using higher volume of fibre and 1/d ratio, provided with good bond between matrixes. SIFCON exhibits extremely high ductility An increase in fibre length leads to an increase in both compressive strength and tensile strength. At constant fibre length compressive strength is directly proportional to the volume fraction of fibres. It may be noted that after a certain fibre loading the bond strength goes down because of lack of matrix presence in between the fibres. The relation between compressive strength and tensile strength for different aspect ratios is linear.
Table 4.2 Cube compressive strength of tested specimens: 7 Days For plain concrete (1:1.5:3) mix Compressive strength = 46.67 N/mm2
Sy Percentage No of Fibre Fibre Length 40mm Fibre Length 50mm Fibre Lengths 60mm
Average Ultimate Compressive Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 1 2 3 6 8 12 92.5 95 99 40.5 42 43.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 100 102 111 44.3 45 48.3 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 111 113 119 49.8 50.3 54
Table 4.3 Cube compressive strength of tested specimens: 28 Days For plain concrete (1:1.5:3) mix Compressive strength = 46.67 N/mm2
Sy Percentage No of Fibre Fibre Length 40mm Fibre Length 50mm Fibre Lengths 60mm
Average Ultimate Compressive Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 1. 2. 3. 6 8 12 104 106 112 46 47 49.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 108.5 110 114.5 48.5 49 51.5 Load Stress Tonnes N/mm2 116 51.5 118 52.5 125.5 55.5
6.0 CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions: From the limited tests conducted, the following tentative conclusions can be drawn based on the results presented. It should be noted that the results Bulletin of ACCE (I) 8
RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY
M.S. Srinivasan,
Research Associate at Sri Aurobindo Society, Puduchery. Email: srinivasan@aurobindosociety.org.in
In our earlier articles we have made a brief review of the institutional and technological solutions to the present ecological crisis and also their limitations. We have also indicated a third, evolutionary remedy as a more lasting solution to the problem. This article presents a perspective, which can lead humanity safely and surely towards its sustainable future. Rethinking Nature The evolutionary agenda we will be presenting here requires two basic cultural changes: rethinking Nature and rethinking Development. The first step has to be a rethinking of our cultural attitudes to Nature. Ecological awareness is an inherent and inbuilt instinct in the ancient mind. It is a religious instinct based on reverence and worship of the sustaining source of their life. In some of the more mentally and spiritually advanced cultures like India and China, this ecological instinct developed further into an aspiration to understand and live in conscious attunement with the laws and rhythms of universal Nature. Modern ecology is only a partial recovery of this ancient wisdom at the physical level. Partial because, in the ancient Indian and Chinese thought, Nature is not only physical, but also psychological and spiritual. Man is a part of Nature not only physically but also psychologically and spiritually. Nature is not only our material Mother from who we draw all the physical energies needed for our material and economic development but also our eternal divine Mother of the world who is the source of all energies in Man and Universe, in all levels of existence-physical, psychological and spiritual. Each part or level of our human organism-physical, vital, mental and spiritual-derives its energy from the corresponding levels or planes of the Cosmic Nature and is governed by its own unique set of laws. Thus, there is a greater and a more integral ecology beyond the ecology of the physical Nature which remains yet to be explored. The aim of this integral ecology is to arrive at a holistic understanding of the laws of human and universal Nature in all the dimensions-material, psychological and spiritual-and explore their mutual interactions, similarities, differences and correspondences and their practical implications for human wellbeing and progress. This cannot be done entirely by the scientific and rational mind. We must have the spiritual intuition of the seer, sage and the mystic. If we dont have it, we must have to draw upon the spiritual wisdom of the past and present and based on it, use our rational, scientific and pragmatic mind to arrive at a flexible framework of thought and practice, action and application. So neither a superstitious reverence and worship nor an arrogant and heartless exploitation can be the right attitude to Nature. The divine Teacher in the Indian scripture Bhagvat Gita gives the highest value to the Knowing Lover. So in our attitude to Nature we have to combine knowledge and devotion, which means a synthesis of an aesthetic,
emotional and spiritual devotion to the divinity and beauty in Nature and an understanding attunement and obedience to the laws and purpose of Nature. So the attitude of modern ecology, which is that of understanding and attunement, is part of the spiritual attitude to Nature. But this understanding has to be widened and deepened to embrace all the dimensions of Nature and it has to be synthesized with the attitude of the deeper heart of the artist, lover and devotee. One of the main causes of the present environment crisis facing our modern civilization is the loss or lack of the sense of reverence and sacredness of Nature: As the Brazilian environmentalist Josi A. Lutzenberger states: Most important and certainly most difficult of all is the necessary rethinking of our cosmology. The anthropocentric world-view westerners inherited from our remote Judeo-Christian past has allowed our technocrats and bureaucrats and most simple people, too, to look at Planet Earth as if it were no more than a free storehouse of unlimited resource to be used, consumed and wasted for even our most absurd or stupid whims. We have no respect for creation. Nothing in nature is, nothing except us, humans, has sufficient inherent value. Mountains can be razed, rivers turned around, forest flooded or annihilated, unique life forms or whole living systems eliminated without qualms or patented for personal or institutional power.(1) But mere thinking, understanding or love without corresponding actions is ineffective for sustainable development. One of the positive features of the modern environmental movement is that it not only insists on awareness and understanding of the laws of Nature but also emphasies that this awareness has to be translated into appropriate decisions and actions which help in preserving the purity of the environment or in other words, I must do whatever I can within my capacity to preserve the environment. For example if I say I am a lover of Nature and travel in a car which causes the highest pollution, then my love for nature is only an ignorant sentiment. If I am a true lover of Nature, I will buy a car only when it becomes a real need. Before buying I will make an extensive research and enquiry to know which of the available car models or brands are the most environment-friendly in terms of petrol consumption and emission, and I will buy this model or brand even if it costs a little more than other models. I will use the car only for long-distance journey and for shorter sojourns I will either walk or use a cycle. Similarly, as far as possible, I will not use products which cause maximum damage to the environment and I will not buy goods or services of companies which are insensitive to their ecological responsibility. As the environmental activist Alan Sasha Lithman points out: What good is it, after all, to attend conferences or workshops on global warming, the control of CO2 emissions on renewable energy systems, grasping the conceptual level of the problem, if we drive to those meetings in gasguzzling dinosaurs?(2)
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Rethinking Development The second step is a rethinking of the aims and values of development. This rethinking is already happening in economics and in the environmental movement. One of the most forceful exponent of this new thinking in economics is the Swedish economists E. F. Schumacher. In his well-known and influential book Small is Beautiful Schumacher presents a powerful critique of the traditional paradigms of development based on endless material growth and consumption. He calls modern humanity to return to the eternal values of truth, beauty and goodness and to Buddhist economics which aims at maximum well-being with minimum consumption and a work-culture where there is less toil for acquiring more and more material wealth and as a result more time and strength is left for artistic creativity.(3) Commenting on the biblical passage seek first the kingdom of God, all else will be added on to you, Schumacher argues that the modern humanity, afflicted with maladies like terrorism, genocide, breakdown, pollution, exhaustion, is in such a condition that unless you seek first the kingdom of God, these other thinks which you need will cease to be available to you. In the concluding para of his book, Schumacher delivers the following message to modern humanity: The type of realism which behaves as if the good, the true, beautiful were too vague and subjective to be adapted as the highest aims of social and individual life or the automatic spin-offs of the successful pursuit of wealth and power, has been aptly called crak-pot realismPeople ask What can I actually do. The answer is as simple as it is disconcerting; we can each of us, work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technologybut it can be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.(4) In the field of Environment also some thinkers have come to a more or less same conclusion as Schumacher. One of them is Dr. Maurice Strong, a former chief of the UN Environmental Agency, who states: We desperately need a new body of ideas, a new synthesis. This must centre on the need for a new attitude towards growth. It will require a major transition to a less physical kind of growth, relatively less demanding of energy and raw materials. It will be one, which is based on an increasing degree on the satisfaction of peoples intellectual, moral and spiritual needs and aspirations in such fields as culture, music, art, literature and other forms of individual selfdevelopment and fulfillment. These are the areas in which man can achieve his highest level of growth in human terms (5) Interestingly Sri Aurobindo, looking at human evolution from a deeper and broader spiritual perspective had come to a similar conclusion when he wrote in one of his early writings: In the next great stage of human progress, it is not a material, but a spiritual, moral and psychic advance that has to be made (6) or in other words Development of Consciousness. If this view is accepted,
then the future of sustainable development lies not in economics, technology or even in ecology but in applied psychology and spirituality, which will lead to the moral psychological and spiritual development of humanity. This means priorities of sustainable development has to shift from material, economic and ecological sustainability to psychological and spiritual sustainability. This will not be difficult because there is a much greater affinity between ecology and spirituality than between ecology and economics. Ecology and inner development can be a mutually reinforcing combination. Inner development in the psychological and spiritual domain can lead to a deeper and inner communion with Nature, which in turn can bring a deeper suprascientific insight into the physical as well as the supraphysical dimensions of Nature. Similarly, a disinterested pursuit of the study of ecology or the ecological paradigm in thought, feeling and action can lead to an inner contact with the universal intelligence or consciousness behind physical Nature, which can open the doors to spiritual consciousness. And the modern science of ecology have discovered two great spiritual principles at the physical level. First is the unity of Man and Nature, and second is the connectedness and the interdependence of human life. If the outer life of humanity is organised according to these principles, with a clear understanding of the moral and practical implications of these principles, then it will create a favourable outer environment for the inner, moral and spiritual development of humanity. Let us now briefly summarise the positive consequences of this inner development for arriving at an enduring solution to the ecological and economic problems confronting our planet. Benefits of the Evolutionary Paradigm: As the human consciousness grows inwardly and feels more and more the deeper and purer joy of inner fulfillment it will act against the desire for a gross external fulfillment through an increasing material consumption. When I am inwardly fulfilled I dont buy whatever I can afford nor do I crave for what I dont have. I buy only what I need and the rest of my earning I spend either for my inner growth or give it for the realisation of a higher ideal which I believe will lead to a greater well-being of the community or humanity as a whole. Similarly as we grow in our mental, moral, aesthetic consciousness we will feel an enlightened and spontaneous sense of ecological and social responsibility based not only on the scientific understanding of the ecology of Nature but flowing from an emotional empathy and aesthetic feeling for Nature, life and people around us. As we grow into the deeper and inner layers of our psychological and spiritual being it will activate in us intuitive faculties of consciousness beyond the scientific and rational mind. This will reveal to us the deeper and higher psychological and spiritual dimensions of Nature and their laws and process, which the scientific and rational mind cannot perceive. In fact, even in the domain of material nature, can the modern scientific mind say it knows fully the totality of physical Nature? For example
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INTRODUCTION
Fabrics structures have gained a lot of interest in architecture during the last decades. This interest is mainly based on the consequent light-weight approach of these structures, where the loads are solely carried by forces in the plane of the membrane. As a consequence, form follows functions in fabric structures and the typical anticlastic shape of tensioned membrane structures results. Typical applications of fabrics in architecture are roof structures ranging from small canopies to coverings of huge stadiums. A special class of fabric structures are pneumatic structures, where the fabric is pre- tensioned by an internal overpressure of the air. Airhouses used e.g. as seasonal coverings of tennis courts are examples for these synclastic structures. In airhouses, the whole covered volume is under an air overpressure in the order of a few millibar. While airhouses can hardly be beaten in terms of light-weight, the basically spherical or cylindrical shape leads to huge covered volumes which often cannot be used in an efficient way. Special entrances are a must in order to maintain the over pressure. The often tremendous power supply for air circulation, pressure sustainability and heating and probably also the psychological barrier of being imprisoned in an airtight structure have limited the application of airhouses to niches. However, pneumatic structures can also be used as beam elements. While such airbeams are applied in small tents e.g. for emergency situations, these interesting lightweight structures have with a few exceptions not been used for larger structures in architecture and civil engineering. One of the main reasons is the very restricted load bearing capacity of such airbeams. The new structural concept Tensairity combines an airbeam with cables and struts to yield a girder with a load bearing capacity comparable to conventional structures.
of this center. The fundamental Tensairity beam consists of a cylindrical airbeam, a compression strut tightly connected with the airbeam and two cables spiraled around the airbeam and attached at each end with the compression strut (Fig. 1). While the cables are pretensioned by the airbeam, the buckling problem in the compression strut is avoided due to the stabilization by the airbeam. As for a beam on an elastic foundation, the buckling load in the compression strut of the Tensairity girder is independent of its length but relies on the pressure in the airbeam (1,3). Since there is buckling free compression in Tensairity, the cross section of the compression strut can have minimal dimensions leading to the light weight property of the new structural concept. Furthermore, the pressure in the airbeam is solely determined by the load per area on the structure and independent of the span and slenderness of the beam (1). Therefore, the synergetic combination of an airbeam with cables and struts has a great potential for wide span structures.
APPLICATIONS OF TENSAIRITY
In recent years, various first applications of Tensairity have been realized. Probably the most impressive one is the roof for a parking garage in Montreux, Switzerland. While the cylindrical shape was the first Tensairity form investigated (Fig. 1), further studies have revealed, that spindle shaped Tensairity girders are more efficient (2, 3) and applications such as the roof over the parking garage in Montreux (Fig. 2) rely on the spindle shape. This membrane roof is supported by 12 Tensairity girders with a span up to 28 m. Steel has been used for the upper and lower chord of the Tensairity girder. The same silicon coated glass fiber fabric is used for the covering as well as for the Tensairity girders. The air pressure in the beams is about 100 mbar. Intensive use of the intriguing lightning possibilities of Tensairity was made by the architects in the roof in Montreux. Spotlights with color changing capabilities are mounted on each end of the Tensairity beams. The light shines through glassy end plates into the pneumatic structure and illuminates the Tensairity girders from inside in a surprisingly homogeneous way. The color of each Tensairity beam can be dynamically changed and controlled by software enabling interesting light patterns over the whole roof structure. Two years ago, a skier bridge in the French Alps with a span of 52 m supported by two asymmetric spindle shaped Tensairity girders was completed (Fig. 3). The compression element of this structure is made of wood, while the tension element is made of steel. During the 13 April - June 2009
winter season, a ski slope runs over the bridge. The deck is covered with a thick layer of snow leading to high loads. This bridge is an impressive demonstration of the potential of Tensairity for wide span structures with heavy loads. While the structures of the foregoing examples rely on Tensairity-beams, the Tensairity concept can also be used for shell-like structures. An example for this approach is a canopy in Pieterlen, Switzerland (Fig. 4, left). Two grids of steel profiles form the upper and lower layer of the structure. The grids of the two layers are connected by tension elements in order to preserve the thickness of the structure under inflation. An upper and lower fabric layer maintains the structure airtight. The air-pressure pretensions the fabric and stabilizes the two metal grids. As there is essentially only air inside the structure, light is used to enhance the optical appearance of the canopy during night. It is possible to look through a glass window inside the structure from the stairs of the building. A special landscape showing the tension connections between the upper and lower layer as well as the fabric bulging between the steel grid can be seen (Fig. 4, right). Another realized application of Tensairity is an advertisement pillar. Next to the load bearing capacity, the most important properties of this structural concept are small transport and storage volume as well as fast set up and dismantling. Setting up a Tensairity beam can be as simple as connecting the compression element with the fabric and cables followed by blowing up the structure. This feature was used in a Tensairity advertisement pillar prototype which had a height of 20 m and could withstand wind speeds up to 100 km/h without any bracing. These advertisement pillars can be used for mobile marketing, e.g. at fairs, open-air festivals or sport events. A further application of Tensairity is an exhibition stand for a Swiss watch manufacturer which was partly built by cylindrical Tensairity-girders. The structure supported a hanging platform for visitors where a sports wagon was exhibited. The advertisement pillar and the exhibition stand show, that Tensairity is an interesting concept for temporary structures. These realized applications are the best demonstration of the potential and reliability of Tensairity. The technology can support heavy loads at wide span as shown with the skier bridge. Tensairity implies a new formal language. It has intriguing lighting options and is well suited for temporary structures. On top of that, Tensairity structures float on water. Filled with helium they can under certain conditions be even lighter than air. And Tensairity structures are adaptive (5). So the most outstanding feature of Tensairity is probably not any of this property but the sum of all: Tensairity is a highly multifunctional structure. Thus for applications where not only a single Bulletin of ACCE (I) 14
aspect as e.g. the weight matters, but weight plus design plus being temporary, for these applications Tensairity can offer a new and unique solution.
TENSAIRITY RESEARCH
Research and development of the Tensairity-concept is the main task of the Center for Synergetic Structures. The interactions between the compressed air, the fabric, the tension element and the compression element need to be very well understood. At the moment, the focus of the research is on spindle shaped Tensairity-girders since they are stiffer compared to cylindrical girders (2). In a recent paper, the deformation behavior of Tensairitygirders under local bending load was investigated experimentally and compared to numerical studies (6). The qualitative behavior of the Tensairity spindle can be reproduced with FEM calculations, where the membrane is treated as a linear isotropic material. The forces at the center of the tension and compression chord of the Tensairity spindle are shown to be a linear function of the applied load. They are to a very good approximation independent of the air pressure and reasonably approximated by the FEM calculations and by a simple analytical model. The work further reveals the interesting load-displacement response under a local central bending load. However, while the comparison of the loaddisplacement response between FEM calculation and experiment is good at the compression side, the numerical study predicts a significantly lower deflection at the tension side compared to the measurement. This might be addressed to the crude membrane material model in the FEM calculation. An important result of this work was that the behavior of a Tensairity girder is much more complicated than e.g. the behavior of a truss. The deflection is not only determined by the structural set-up and the load but also by the variable air pressure. The displacements of the upper and lower chord are considerably different. Therefore, one has to be specific when talking about deformation of Tensairity girders. Due to the fabric part, the Tensairity girder shows an initial hysteretic behavior which is different from later load cycles. The fabric is a non-linear, orthotropic material with history dependent properties. These properties have an influence on the whole Tensairity structure. The in-depth investigation of the characteristics of the fabric including the shear modulus is one focus of the current research of the Center for Synergetic Structures. For the study of the deformation behavior of Tensairity girders, two test rigs have been set up at Empa. In one test rig the deformation behavior of spindle shaped Tensairity girders under homogeneously distributed load is experimentally investigated in collaboration with ETH Zrich. In this test rig, girders with up to 10 m span can be investigated. In the second test rig, the first
experimental studies of the behavior of spindle shaped Tensairity girders under axial compressive loads are in progress. The test girder has a length of 5 m and a maximal diameter of 0.5m. It consists of an inflated textile membrane hull and three struts placed at respective angles of .=120 along the section. The struts are connected at both ends with cylindrical end fittings. Each strut is made of Aluminum, has a rectangular cross section (30x10 mm2) and is placed in pockets sewed upon the hull. The material of the membrane is a polyamide based fabric (Dynatec/Schoeller) with an embedded PU foil to keep the structure air tight. An experimental load-displacement diagram at the point of load application for air pressure values of 150 mbar and 300 mbar is shown in Figure 5 (7). A load up to 10 kN was applied. After an initial deformation of about 1 mm, the deformation increases as an almost linear function of the applied load. Obviously, the structure with the higher pressure is stiffer, although the difference is only in the order of a quarter millimeter. This means that the three struts of the Tensairity spindle are very well stabilized and positioned by the pretensioned fabric at these pressure values. For very low pressure values the structure becomes very soft. The stabilization trough air pressure is therefore very important in these columns. Further investigations are in progress to scrutinize this promising behavior of Tensairity columns.
REFERENCES
1. Rolf H. Luchsinger, A. Pedretti, P. Steingruber and M. Pedretti, The new structural concept Tensairity: Basic Principles, in: A. Zingoni, (ed.), Progress in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, A.A. Balkema Publishers, London, 2004, p. 65 Andrea Pedretti, P. Steingruber, M. Pedretti and R.H. Luchsinger, The new structural concept Tensairity: FE-modeling and applications, in: A. Zingoni, (ed.), Progress in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, A.A. Balkema Publishers, London, 2004, p. 66 Rolf H. Luchsinger, A. Pedretti, P. Steingruber and M. Pedretti, Light weight structures with Tensairity, in: R. Motro, (ed.), Shell and Spacial Structures from Models to Realization, Editions de lEsprou, Montpellier, 2004, pp. 80-81 Rolf H. Luchsinger, R. Crettol, P. Steingruber, A. Pedretti and M. Pedretti, Going strong: From inflatable structures to Tensairity, in: E. Onate and B. Krplin, (eds.), Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures II, CIMNE, Barcelona, 2005, pp. 414420 Rolf H. Luchsinger and R. Crettol, Adaptable Tensairity, in F. Scheublin, A. Pronk, A. Borgard and R. Houtman (eds.), Adaptables06, Proceedings of the joint CIB, Tensinet and AISS international conference on adaptability in design and construction, Eindhoven, 2006, pp. 5.3-5.7 Rolf H. Luchsinger and R. Crettol, Experimental and numerical study of spindle shaped Tensairity girders, International Journal of Space Structures, Vol. 21/3, 2006, pp. 119-130 Theofanis S. Plagianakos, R. H. Luchsinger and R. Crettol, Deformation of spindle shaped Tensairity columns under compression, Proceedings of COMP_07: 6th International Symposium on Advanced Composite Technologies, Corfu, GR, 2007
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The new structural concept Tensairity is a synergetic combination of an air beam with cables and struts. The loads are carried by the cables and struts. The role of the air beam is to stabilize the structure. This light-weight structure has a range of interesting properties and can be ideally used for temporary structures. First applications as roof structures, a bridge, an advertisement pillar or an exhibition stand demonstrate the potential and reliability of the structural concept. In parallel to these applications, the basic concepts of Tensairity need to be better understand. Experimental and numerical studies of the Center for Synergetic Structures enlighten the role of the fabric in Tensairitygirders and reveal the potential for Tensairity columns. All these efforts will allow to develop the full potential of this interesting technology. 6.
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Luchsinger, Dr. R. H.: Empa, Center for Synergetic Structures, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dbendorf, Switzerland, rolf.luchsinger@empa.ch Crettol, R.: Empa, Center for Synergetic Structures, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dbendorf, Switzerland, rene.crettol@empa.ch Plagianakos, Dr. T. S.: Empa, Center for Synergetic
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does it know fully what are the ecological consequences of splitting an atom or slicing or altering a gene? No true scientific mind will be so arrogant to make such a statement. As we ascend into the deeper and higher levels and acquire new intuitive faculties we will get a more total and holistic insight into unity, harmony and interdependence of life and Nature and as a result, better understanding of the consequences of our decisions and action. When the scientific, technological, professional and managerial mind of humanity acquires these higher intuitive faculties beyond the scientific and the rational mind, many of the problems related to environment, energy, economics or development, will find a quicker and better solution. And finally when the human consciousness grows more and more into the unity-consciousness of the spirit, in which we can feel our oneness with all existence, it will lead to an unprecedented levels of cooperation and harmony among humanity. And no problem, in whatever domain it may be, can stand against the harmonious and focused assault of the creative energy of the human spirit. The spiritual intuition will also reveal the deepest and highest spiritual truths of Man, Nature and God in their perfect unity and harmony. This will lead to a rediscovery of the ancient wisdom which saw and adored Nature as a living Goddess and the divine Mother of us all and an altogether new paradigm of spiritual ecology.
The Path to Sustainable Evolution This brings us to the pragmatic question: how to achieve this higher evolution? The path involves three steps. First of all we have to evolve a synthesis of the spiritual wisdom of humanity with the modern secular values of liberal humanism, science, ecology and environmentalism. Second is to build an outer economic, social and political organisation based on this synthesis. Third, and the most important, is a system of education, which can internalise the values of this synthesis in the consciousness of the people. This cannot be done entirely by the present system of mental education. We have to evolve a new systems of education by which higher values like Unity of Man and Nature are not merely thought and felt as an idea or sentiment but become concrete experiential realities of consciousness, felt as concretely as we feel our body. There is a system of knowledge or science, which can provide the basis for such an experiential education. It is the ancient Indian science of Yoga. References:
1. Josi A. Lutzenberg, NGO as a Driving Force, ed. Fritjof Capra and Guntur Pauli, Steering Business Towards sustainability, p.32 Alan Sasha Lithman, Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millenium, pp.125 E.F. Schumaker, Small is Beautiful, pp.44-52 ibid, pp.250 Maurice Strong, New Growth Model, Future of a Troubled World, Ed, Richie Caulder. pp.141
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ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper is to present the use of flat plate/slab construction in India. The paper begins with an introduction to flat plate/slab structures and their applications in buildings followed by a comparative description of flat plate/slab structure designs based on Indian Standard IS 456:2000 and American Concrete Institute ACI-318 codes. The paper also describes seismic design provisions per Indian Standard IS 1893 and Uniform Building Code UBC 2000 for the lateral force design of flat plate/ slabs. We conclude the paper by presenting two real world construction projects designed by us in Bangalore. The discussion of the two construction projects will include a cost and structural efficiency review of the original Post-Tensioned (PT) slab proposed for those projects. Our review indicated a 15-20% higher cost for post-tensioned system when compared to conventional Reinforce Cement Concrete (RCC) and hence, conventional RCC structure was proposed for those projects. Further, we have generally observed that that there is no reduction in thickness of the slab with post tensioned flat plate construction in Bangalore (built by post tensioned concrete contractors) when compared to conventional RCC. Also, we have observed that many of the usual advantages of using PT systems over conventional RCC including a nearly crack free slab at service load leading to smaller deflection and watertight structures are absent.
India, has been limited in terms of both Indian standards and Indian research papers. Indian engineers often have to resort to other standards to design flat plate/slab. The following is a discussion of the process of designing flat plate/slabs to meet Indian codes. Limitations in the Indian codes IS 456:2000 are overcome by utilizing ACI-318. The design of flat slab structures involves three steps: 1) Framing system 2) Engineering analysis 3) Reinforcement design and detailing Framing System: Initial framing system formulation provides a detailed geometric description of the column spacing and overhang. Even though the architect provides this part of the design, the engineer should emphasize on the following: 1) Three continuous spans in each direction or have an overhang at least one-forth times adjacent span length in case of only two continuous spans. Typical panel must be rectangular The spans must be similar in length i.e. adjacent span in each direction must not differ in length by one-third.
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INTRODUCTION
Flat plate/slabs are economical since they have no beams and hence can reduce the floor height by 1015%. Further the formwork is simpler and structure is elegant. Hence flat plate/slab construction has been in practice in the west for a long time. However, the technology has seen large-scale use only in the last decade and is one of the rapidly developing technologies in the Indian building industry today. Material advances in concrete quality available for construction, improvement in quality of construction; easier design and numerical techniques has contributed to the rapid growth of the technology in India.
Engineering Analysis: Flat plate/slab may be analyzed and designed by any method as long as they satisfy the strength, stiffness and stability requirements of the IS 456:2000 or ACI318 codes. A typical flat plate/slab can be analyzed by direct design method or equivalent frame method as prescribed by the code. However, if the flat plate/ slab is atypical with unusual geometry, with irregular column spacing, or with big opening then the designer may have to use finite element method model analysis using computers. The design of flat plate/slabs irrespective of the methodology used must first assume a minimum slab and drop thickness and a minimum column dimension to ensure adequate stiffness of the system to control deflection. The IS 456:2000 code is not clear on these minimums. However ACI specifies empirical formulas to arrive at these minimums. Refer to Table 1 for minimum slab thickness. Once the slab thickness and column dimensions with boundary conditions are selected, the structure is loaded for different load cases and combinations prescribed by the code. The computed forces and 17 April - June 2009
moments in the members should be used for reinforcement design. Critical reactions for the load combinations are used for the design of the supporting columns and foundations.
Computers
Due to availability of software and high speed and cost efficient computers, analysis-using computers is the most commonly used method to analyze flat plate/ slab today. However the designer should be well versed with all the theoretical methods to verify computer results. To verify computer results like shear force and bending moment, the designer could compute shear at the vicinity of column by multiplying the total vertical weight times the tributary area supported by the column plus additional vertical shear produced by unbalanced moment at plane punching shear at column. To compute moments, the designer could use the direct design method. Even though this method has limitations, it is a reliable method to verify computer results. Direct design method is essentially a three step procedure: 1) determine the total moment for each span, 2) divide the total moment between negative and positive moment within each span, and 3) distribute the negative and positive moment to the column strip (half of span under consideration) and middle strip (half of the span under consideration) within each span. For convenience, the designer can use moment coefficient in Table 2.
strips can be per IS 456:2000 or ACI-318, both being similar. However design for punching shear force (including additional shear due to unbalanced moment) per IS 456:2000 is 32% conservative compared to ACI-318, because Indian code underestimates the concrete two-way shear strength by 32% compared to ACI.
Deflection
Computing deflection of flat plate/slab is complicated due to many parameters involved in the evaluation, such as aspect ratio of panels, stiffness effect of drop and column capital, lateral deflection of end columns, cracking and long term loading effects etc. IS 456:2000 prescribes allowable deflection for slabs but is unclear about the actual computation of deflection for flat plate/slabs. Hence the designer has to refer to the ACI-318 equivalent frame method to compute deflection or use computer analysis. The maximum elastic displacement of the structure results including the long-term effects due to creep and shrinkage is used to compare against the allowable deflection per the appropriate code. Long-term deflection can be computed per IS 456:2000 or ACI-319, but a simpler estimation is to use two times the elastic deflection.
contractors in India claim a 20% cost reduction compared to conventional RCC. However, our observation of post-tensioned flat plat/ slab constructions used in two construction projects (see figure 1) in Bangalore built by post tensioned concrete contractors utilizing PT system has been that there is no reduction in thickness of the slab compared to conventional RCC and the slabs are not crack free at service loads. Hence, the actual deflection in these structures is similar to that of theoretically computed RCC deflection. In addition, water tightness was not achieved in one of the projects. And with respect to costs involved, there is an escalation in cost by 15-20% rather than reduction as claimed by PT design & build contractor. And another disadvantage in using post tensioned system in commercial buildings in India, is its lack of flexibility to create openings or drill into slabs to anchor services system when the slab is completed with post tensioning. Invariable the owner in India is not sure of the occupant when he starts the building and may have to change or create opening in slabs after construction to satisfied occupants requirement, which is not possible with a PT system.
mentioned above and our conventional RCC design yielding a cost reduction of 20%, prompted us to decide the use of conventional RCC flat slab as our final design choice (figure 3). Project- RPS commercial The building is a rectangle in plan with approximate dimension of 50m length, 25m width, and with same floors and height as the previous project, but the floor plan has only two bays hence appropriate 2.4m overhang was proposed on either side of the bay to make it structurally efficient (figure 4&5).
FINAL REMARKS
Flat plate/slab construction is a developing technology in India. Flat plate/slab can be designed and built either by conventional RCC or Post-tensioning. However, due to issues mentioned above with PT construction in India and its higher cost, conventional RCC should be the preferred choice for spans up to 10 meters. Design of conventional RCC flat plate/slab in India, utilizing Indian codes, has many shortcomings, which have to be addressed and revised soon. Until then Indian engineers will continue to use Indian codes in combination with other standards like the ACI, BS or Euro Code to design and analyze Flat slabs/plates.
PROJECT APPLICATION
We have successfully used the above briefed method in design of two projects namely Maas-3 and RPS. The Maas-3 project has been completed successfully and is ready for occupation. The RPS project is currently under construction.
Reference:
1. Indian Standard IS 456:2000, Plain and Reinforced Concrete Code of Practice. 2. Purushothaman P., Reinforced Concrete Structural Elements, Tata McGraw-Hill Publication Company Ltd. New Delhi. 1984 3. Verghese P.C., Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, Prentice-Hall of (India Private Ltd. New Delhi. 2003 4. Notes on ACI 318-2000, Building Code Requirement For Reinforced Concrete, Portland cement association. USA 2000 5. Structural Design Guide to the ACI Building code, Third edition, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. New York. 1985 6. Kenneth Leet and Dionisio Bernal, Reinforced Concrete Design, Third edition, McGraw-Hill, USA. 1997 7. Structural Engineering Handbook, Forth Edition, McGraw-Hill, USA1997 8. Alaa G. S. and Walter H.D., Analysis and Deflection of Reinforced Concrete Flat Slabs, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol. 25. 1998 9. Branson, D.E, Deformation of Concrete Structures, McGraw-Hill Company, New York.1977 10. Nilson A.H. and Walter D.B., Deflection of Twoway Floor Systems by the Equivalent Frame Method, ACI Journal, Vol. 72, No.5 1975 19 April - June 2009
Project- Maas-3
The building is a trapezoid in plan with an approximate dimension of 90 m length, 30M width and 15meter height. The structure consists of basement car parking floor plus 4 upper office floors and terrace (figure 2). The structural system is a flat plate supported by regularly spaced vertical concrete columns, and foundation for columns are typical concrete spread footing. Since the project is located in Bangalore (Zone-2), framing system would resist both lateral and vertical loads. The design criteria are based on IS 456-2000 IS 1893 Part 1 and IS 875 Part 3. The vertical loading is comprised of the estimated self-weight, miscellaneous dead loads, and live load. The lateral loading is comprised of wind and seismic loads. Due to irregular nature of the floor plan, the analysis of the structure was carried out using computer and results were verified by direct design methods and equivalent frame method. Our hand calculations were very similar to the computer-generated results. Originally we had proposed post-tensioned PT slab for this project. However, due to observations of PT systems
The material quantities needed with reinforced concrete buildings also increase as the number of stories increases. The increase in material for gravity load is more than for steel buildings, whereas the additional material required for lateral load is not high for steel buildings, since weight of additional gravity loads helps to resist the lateral deflection and overturning moment. The additional gravity load, on the other hand, can aggravate the problem of designing for earthquake forces. The graph shown in Figure 1 illustrates how unit weight of a structural material such as steel increases as the number of floors increases.
and television broadcasting towers which measure over 600 metres (about 2,000 feet) in height. There is, however, some debate about: Whether structures under construction should be included in the list. Whether structures rising out of water should have their below-water height included. For towers, there is debate over: whether guy-wiresupported structures should be counted? For buildings, there is debate over: Whether communication towers with observation galleries should be considered habitable buildings. Whether only habitable height is considered. Whether roof-top antennas should be considered towards height of buildings; with particular interest in whether components that look like spires can be either classified as antennas or architectural detail.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the organization that determines the title of the Worlds Tallest Building, recognizes a building only if at least fifty percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area. Structures that do not meet this criterion, such as the CN Tower, are defined as towers. The conservation and creation of energy in all buildings, not just in tall buildings, is accepted as a key to counteracting the effects of climate change.
Figure 1. Structural Steel quantities for Gravity Load and Wind Load systems (Source: Taranath, 1988)
The unit weight of structural framing members may be reduced with the application of Innovative and state-of-the-art design concepts Use of high-strength low-alloy steels, Use of welding instead of bolting, Increased use of composite construction, and light weight aggregates Application of computers for analysis and design, gradual increase in the allowable stresses in the material based on the research and past performance Reduction in other construction materials and equipments The cost of structure usually accounts for 20-30% of the cost of a tall building. The cost of wind bracing system may work out to one-third of the structural cost (or almost 7-10% of total cost). Each building, of course, is a response to a unique set of circumstances brought about by the real estate market, zoning laws, client priorities, and architects tastes and fantasies. It is this singularity of tall buildings that has given impetus to the innovations in the art of structural engineering. In terms of absolute height, the tallest structure is currently the Burj Dubai, followed by dozens of radio Bulletin of ACCE (I) 22
Structural schemes: Braced tube scheme: Cross-bracing systemsExterior braced tube and Interior braced tube, braced and framed tube combination- steel or composite Framed tube systems: single tube or twin tubessteel or composite Nontubular schemes: Shear wall and frame, shear links, outrigger and belt truss, jumbo column scheme- steel or composite.
Tallest structures
The worlds tallest man-made structure is Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in Dubai that reached 707 m (2,320 ft) in height on September 26, 2008. When completed, it is expected to rise over 818 m (2,684 ft). By 7 April 2008 it had been built higher than the KVLYTV mast in North Dakota, USA, which is still the tallest completed structure at 628.8 m (2,063 ft). It officially surpassed Polands 646.38 m (2,121 ft) Warsaw radio mast, which stood from 1974 to 1991, to become the tallest structure ever built. Guyed lattice towers such as these masts had held the world height record since 1954. The CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, standing at 553.3 m (1,815 ft) is the worlds tallest completed freestanding structure on land. Opened in 1976, it was
surpassed in height by the rising Burj Dubai on September 12, 2007. It has the worlds second highest public observation deck at 446.5 m (1,465 ft). The Petronius Platform stands 610 m (2,001 ft) off the sea floor leading some, including Guinness World Records 2007, to claim it as the tallest freestanding structure in the world. However, it is debated if belowwater height should not be counted, in the same manner as underground height is not taken into account in buildings. The Troll A platform is 472 m (1,549 ft), without any part of that height being supported by wires. The tension-leg type of oil platform has even greater belowwater heights with several examples more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) deep. However, these platforms are not considered constant structures as the vast majority of their height is made up of the length of the tendons attaching the floating platforms to the sea floor. Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan is currently the worlds tallest inhabited building in only one of the four main categories that are commonly measured: at 509.2 m (1,671 ft) as measured to its architectural height (spire). Its roof height 449.2 m (1,474 ft) and highest occupied floor 439.2 m (1,441 ft) have recently been overtaken by the Shanghai World Financial Center (roof height 487 m (1,598 ft); highest occupied floor 474 m (1,555 ft)). The Sears Tower is highest in the final category: the greatest height to top of antenna of any building in the world at 527.3 m (1,730 ft).
On its completion, projected for 2009, Burj Dubai will break the height record in all four categories for completed buildings by a wide margin. While the final height has not been released to the public, Greg Sang, the construction manager, says that the building will rise to a minimum of 700 m (2,297 ft). The developer, Emaar, is keeping structural details secret due to competition for the worlds tallest with other structures, including the nearby Al Burj. The Shanghai World Financial Center has the worlds highest roof, highest occupied floor, and the worlds highest public observation deck at 474.2 m (1,556 ft). It will retain the latter record after the completion of Burj Dubai, as Burj Dubais observation deck will be at 442 m (1,450 ft).
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Roller coaster Tomb Dome Air traffic control tower Flagpole, free-standing Equilateral Pentagon Statue (including pedestal) Storage silo Sculpture Light advertisement Wooden structure Aerial tramway support tower Electricity pylon of powerline for single phase AC Lighthouse Sphere Pre-modern Chinese pagoda Lantern Tower Statue (not including pedestal) Brick lighthouse Brick minaret Electricity pylon (concrete, prefabricated) Monolithic obelisk
Kingda Ka Great Pyramid of Giza St Peters Basilica dome Suvarnabhumi Airport Ashgabat Flagpole Baltimore World Trade Center Ushiku Daibutsu Bronze Buddha Statue Henninger Turm Spire of Dublin Bayer Cross Leverkusen Gliwice Radio Tower Pillar of third section of Gletscherbahn Kaprun Bremen-Industriehafen Weser Powerline Crossing Yokohama Marine Tower Stockholm Globe Arena Liaodi Pagoda Boston Stump Mamayev Kurgan Torre della Lanterna Qutub Minar Pylon 310 of powerline Innertkirchen-Littau-Mettlen Tuthmosis II Obelisk
United States Egypt Vatican City Thailand Turkmenistan United States Japan Germany Ireland Germany Poland Austria Germany Japan Sweden China United Kingdom Russia Italy India Switzerland Italy
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* Mixed Use is defined as having both residential and office space. ** As Burj Dubai is still under construction and not yet inhabitable, it currently does not serve a specific function. Upon completion, it will serve as a mixed use building. *** Although the Rose Tower is complete, it is not currently inhabited. Once the buildings hotel opens (target date of April 2008 was not met), the tower will become the worlds tallest building used exclusively as a hotel.
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Up until 1998 the tallest building status was essentially uncontested. Counting buildings as structures with floors throughout, and with antenna masts excluded, the Sears Tower in Chicago was considered the tallest. When the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were built, controversy arose because the spire extended nine metres higher than the roof of the Sears Tower. Excluding the spire, the Petronas Towers are not taller than the Sears Tower. At their convention in Chicago, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reduced the Sears Tower from worlds tallest and pronounced it not second tallest, but third, and pronounced Petronas as worlds tallest. This action caused a considerable amount of controversy, so CTBUH defined four categories in which the worlds tallest building can be measured: 1. Height to the architectural top (including spires and pinnacles, but not antennas, masts or flagpoles). This measurement is the most widely utilized and is used to define the rankings of the 100 Tallest Buildings in the World. 2. Highest Occupied Floor 3. Height to Top of Roof 4. Height to Tip The height is measured from the pavement level of the main entrance. At the time, the Sears Tower held first place in the second and third categories. Petronas held the first category, and the original World Trade Towers held the fourth. Within months, however, a new antenna mast was placed on the Sears Tower, giving it hold of the fourth category. On April 20, 2004, the Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, was completed. Its completion gave it
Date (Event) 2008 2003: 2000: 1998 1996 Architectural top Shanghai World Financial Center completed Taipei 101 completed Sears Tower antenna extension Petronas Towers completed CTBUH defines categories
the world record for the first three categories. On July 21, 2007 it was announced that Burj Dubai had surpassed Taipei 101 in height, reaching 512 m (1,680 feet) tall. However Burj Dubai is still under construction. Today, Taipei 101 leads in the first category with 509 m (1,671 feet), but has been surpassed in the second two categories by the Shanghai World Financial Center whose roof height is 492 m (1,614 feet) and whose highest occupied floor is at 474 m (1,555 feet). Before either of these buildings were completed, the first category was held by the Petronas Twin Towers with 452 m (1,483 feet), and before that by Sears Tower with 442 m (1,451 feet). The second and third categories were held by the Sears Tower, with 412 m (1,351 feet) and 442 m (1,451 feet) respectively. The Sears Tower still leads in the fourth category with 527 m (1,729 feet), previously held by the World Trade Center until the extension of the Chicago towers western broadcast antenna in 2000, over a year prior to the Trade Centers destruction in 2001. Its antenna mast included, 1 World Trade Center measured 526 m (1,727 feet). The World Trade Center became the worlds tallest buildings to be destroyed or demolished; indeed, its site entered the record books twice on September 11, 2001, in that category, replacing the Singer Building, which once stood a block from the WTC site. Structures such as the CN Tower, the Ostankino Tower and the Oriental Pearl Tower are excluded from these categories because they are not habitable buildings, which are defined as frame structures made with floors and walls throughout.
structures that are built underground or on the seabed, such as the Petronius Platform in the Gulf of Mexico. As of 12 May 2008, the tallest freestanding structure on land is the still under construction Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building, which now stands at 636 m (2,090 ft), surpassed the height of the previous record holder, the 553.3 m (1,815 ft) CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, on September 12, 2007. It is scheduled to be completed in 2009, and is planned to rise to a height of over 818 m (2,680 ft). The following is a list of structures that have held the title as the tallest freestanding structure on land.
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St. Marys Church in Stralsund, Germany Strasbourg Cathedral in France St. Nikolai in Hamburg, Germany Cathdrale Notre Dame in Rouen, France Cologne Cathedral in Germany Washington Monument in Washington D.C., United States Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
First structure to exceed 300 metres in height. The addition of a telecommunications tower in the 1950s brought the overall height to 324 m. First building with 100+ stories. The addition of a pinnacle and antennas later increased its overall height to 1,472 ft/448.7 m. Remains the tallest in Europe. Fire in 2000 led to extensive renovation. Remains the tallest in the Americas Current holder of worlds tallest freestanding structure. Estimated to rise higher than 2,625 ft when completed in 2009.
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Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia CN Tower in Toronto, Canada Burj Dubai in Dubai, UAE
The CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario was the worlds tallest freestanding structure on land from 1975
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Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is currently the worlds tallest man-made structure.
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Notable mentions include the Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, built in the third century BC, and estimated between 115 to 135 m (383440 ft). It was the worlds tallest nonpyramidal building for many centuries. Another notable mention includes the Jetavanaramaya stupa in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, which was built in the third century, and was similarly tall at 122 m (400 ft). These were both the worlds tallest or second tallest non-pyramidal buildings for over a thousand years. The tallest secular building between the collapse of the Pharos and the erection of the Washington Monument may have been the Torre del Mangia in Siena, which is 102 m tall, and was constructed in the first half of the fourteenth century, and the 97 m tall Torre degli Asinelli in Bologna, also Italy, built between 1109 and 1119. * This is the current height of Burj Dubai, as of 26 September 2008. When completed, it is expected to rise over 800 m (2,625 ft). Figure 3. Diagram of the Principal High Buildings of the Old World, 1884
Higher observation decks have existed on mountain peaks or cliffs, rather than on tall structures. For example, the Royal Gorge Bridge in Caon City, Colorado, USA, was constructed in 1929 spanning the Royal Gorge at a height of 321 m (1095 ft.) above the Arkansas River.
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Mast was divided in 145 m by an insulator, demolished in 1931 2 masts, demolished in 1946 8 masts, destroyed in 1940 Blaw-Knox Tower, insulated against ground, destroyed in 1945, afterwards rebuilt Insulated against ground, dismantled in 1945 Demolished on October 17, 1972 by explosives. Replaced in 1976 by 2 355 masts. Blaw-Knox Tower, Insulated against ground, rebuilt after destruction in 1945
Central masts of Nauen Transmitter Station, Nauen, Germany 1920 Masts of Ruiselede transmitter, Ruiselede, Belgium 1923
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The structures (media supported) list uses pinnacle height and includes architectural structures of any type that are not totally built in the air but are using support from other, denser media like salt water. All structures greater than 500 m (1,640 ft) are listed. The freestanding structures list uses pinnacle height and includes structures over 400 m (1,312 ft) that do not use guy-wires or other external supports. This means truly free standing on its own or, in similar sense, nonsupported structures. The building list uses architectural height (excluding antennas) and includes only buildings, defined as consisting of habitable floors. Both of these follow CTBUH guidelines.
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CN Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Ostankino Tower, Moscow, Russia Sears Tower, , United States Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China John Hancock Center, Chicago, United States Petronas Tower I, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Petronas Tower II, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Greenland Square Zifeng Tower, Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China Empire State Building, New York City, United States Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran Kuala Lumpur Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China Chimney of GRES-2 Power Station, Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong Tianjin Radio and Television Tower, Tianjin, Peoples Republic of China Central TV Tower, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
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Buildings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan Petronas Tower I, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Petronas Tower II, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Greenland Square Zifeng Tower, Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China Sears Tower, Chicago, United States Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China Two International Finance Centre, Hong Kong CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou, Peoples Republic of China Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, Peoples Republic of China Empire State Building, New York, United States Central Plaza, Hong Kong Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong Bank of America Tower, New York, United States Almas Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Emirates Office Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Tuntex Sky Tower, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Aon Center, Chicago, United States The Center, Hong Kong John Hancock Center, Chicago, United States Rose Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Shimao International Plaza, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China Minsheng Bank Building, Wuhan, Peoples Republic of China Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea (topped out) China World Trade Center Tower 3, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China Q1 Tower, Gold Coast City, Australia Burj Al Arab, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chrysler Building, New York, United States Nina Tower I, Hong Kong New York Times Building, New York, United States Bank of America Plaza, Atlanta, United States U.S. Bank Tower, Los Angeles, United States Menara Telekom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates One Island East, Hong Kong AT&T Corporate Center, Chicago, United States The Address Downtown Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates JPMorgan Chase Tower, Houston, United States Baiyoke Tower II, Bangkok, Thailand Two Prudential Plaza, Chicago, United States 2003 1998 1998 2009 1974 1998 2003 1997 1996 1931 1992 1990 2008 2008 2000 1997 1973 1998 1969 2007 2006 2007 1992 2008 2005 1999 1930 2007 2007 1992 1989 2001 2000 2008 1989 2008 1982 1997 1990 509 m (1,670 ft) 492 m (1,614 ft) 452 m (1,483 ft) 452 m (1,483 ft) 450 m (1,476 ft) 442 m (1,450 ft) 421 m (1,381 ft) 415 m (1,362 ft) 391 m (1,283 ft) 384 m (1,260 ft) 381 m (1,250 ft) 374 m (1,227 ft) 367 m (1,204 ft) 366 m (1,201 ft) 360 m (1,181 ft) 355 m (1,165 ft) 348 m (1,142 ft) 346 m (1,135 ft) 346 m (1,135 ft) 344 m (1,129 ft) 333 m (1,093 ft) 333 m (1,093 ft) 331 m (1,086 ft) 330 m (1,083 ft) 330 m (1,083 ft) 323 m (1,060 ft) 321 m (1,053 ft) 319 m (1,047 ft) 319 m (1,047 ft) 319 m (1,047 ft) 312 m (1,024 ft) 310 m (1,017 ft) 310 m (1,017 ft) 309 m (1,014 ft) 308 m (1,010 ft) 307 m (1,007 ft) 306 m (1,004 ft) 305 m (1,001 ft) 304 m (997 ft) 303 m (994 ft) 101 101 88 88 89 108 88 88 80 69 102 78 70 54 74 54 85 83 73 100 72 60 68 105 74 78 60 77 80 52 55 73 55 56 70 60 63 75 85 64 Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China 2008
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Numerous supertall skyscrapers are in various stages of proposal, planning, or construction. Each of the following are under construction and, depending on the order of completion, could become the worlds tallest building or structure in at least one category: Burj Dubai , under construction in Dubai, UAE, is expected to be 818 m (2,684 ft) tall. It is currently under construction, and as of 26 September 2008, it is 707 m (2,319.6 ft) tall, with 160 completed floors. It is currently taller than the CN Tower, the tallest completed freestanding structure. If completed, it will be the tallest manmade structure of any kind in history. Construction began in September 2004 and completion is expected in September 2009. The Pentominium, under construction in Dubai, is expected to be 618 m (2,028 ft) tall and have 120 floors. If completed, it will be the tallest all-residential building in the world. Construction began in 2007 and completion is expected in 2011. The Russia Tower, under construction in Moscows International Business Centre, is expected to be 612.2 m (2,009 ft.) tall and have 118 floors. If completed, it will surpass the belowmentioned Federation Tower East as the tallest building in Europe. Construction began in September 2007 and completion is expected in 2012. Incheon Tower is a 151-floor, 610 metres (2,000 ft) tower in Incheon, South Korea. It is estimated to be completed in 2012. The Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, under construction in Guangzhou, China, is expected to be 610.0 m (2,001 ft) tall. If completed, it will be tallest concrete tower, as well as the tallest structure in Asia. Construction began in November 2005 and completion is expected in 2009. The Chicago Spire (formerly Fordham Spire), under construction in Chicago, is expected to be 609.6 m (2,000 ft) and have 150 floors. If completed, it would surpass the CN Tower as the tallest freestanding building in North America[16], and would be the second tallest all-residential building in the world (behind the aforementionned Pentominium). Construction began in June 2007 and completion is expected in early 2012.[17] The Jakarta Tower (Menara Jakarta) is currently onhold in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is expected to be 558 m (1,831 ft.) tall up to the antenna, thus may be tallest concrete tower. It is expected to be completed in 2011. The Federation Tower East, under construction in Moscows International Business Centre, is expected to be 506 m (1,660 ft.) tall (to the tip of the spire) and have 93 floors. If completed, it will surpass the aforementionned Mercury City Tower as the
tallest building in Europe. Construction began in 2003 and completion is expected in 2009.
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of the structure (3). On the other hand in case of structure which uses monitoring technique, the damages are detected as they and when are formed. But this involves extra cost at the initial stage of construction. However, this cost will be negligible when compared to the cost it will be saving in the future/later date (long run). How much we can save in long run has been studied using a real life case study. The case study is of a steel bridge of 20.3m span. The some of the advantages we derive from monitoring of the structure are: SHM facilitates management decisions depending on the severity of damage and the locations of damage (retrofit or demolish the structure). Minimization of the maintenance cost and also the cost to be incurred for retrofitting or repairing if the structure is damaged. Predict the life of the structure.
(FE) model as a means for damage location identification using higher modes. Damage location is identified by correlating the changes in natural frequencies (for higher modes) with the corresponding mode shapes of the undamaged structure. The natural frequency shifts of the structure are obtained from the shifts in the peaks if the E/M admittance signatures of smart piezo-transducers bonded on to the host structure. The mode shapes are obtained from the equivalent FE model of the undamaged structure. The advantages of this method are: 1) A single or a pair of piezo-transducer is sufficient to locate the damages in small structures (with homogeneous materials). This method can be exploited for economical health monitoring of structures such as trusses. 2) The knowledge of mode shape changes for the damaged structure is not required. 3) Piezo-transducers being light-weight and nonintrusive to the structure do not significantly affect the natural frequencies of the system. 4) The sensitivity of the technique to incipient damages is high. The governing equation for calculating the DI values for each element of the beam is as follows (5):
The health monitoring technique can be used almost all structures such as bridges, buildings, tunnels, power plants and nuclear reactors. The accessories needed for monitoring the structure are accelerometer, multimeter, strain gauges, piezoelectric patches (PZT patches) and computer.
As we can see from this equation, 2 sets of data are required. 1. The shifts in fundamental frequency for each stage of damage (comparing predamage and post-damage modal analysis) The values for the curvatures.
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Current damage detection methods are either visual or localized experimental methods such as acoustic or ultrasonic methods, magnetic field methods, radiography, eddy-current methods and thermal field methods. In this paper, a method has been discussed which provides information about level 4. The method is low frequency vibration technique based on piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) patches. Naidu and Soh (5) described the electromechanical (E/ M) impedance method integrated with a finite element Bulletin of ACCE (I) 38
The advantage of this method is that it eliminates the need to obtain the mode shapes by experimental modal analysis, which requires lots of transducers and is also not very accurate. The damage indicator for an element is nothing but the weighted average of the element deformation parameters, E, over the chosen m modes, which have the largest frequency changes. The damage location is then identified as the element that has the maximum DI value. The above mentioned method can be demonstrated experimentally on a 2m long structural stainless steel beam and the sectional details are shown in Fig.1. The boundary condition of the beams used for computational and theoretical analysis is simply April - June 2009
supported pin-pin end supports. To simulate this, 2 angles (ISA) were welded onto the beam at its two ends. The length of the beam between supports was 1.9m. A cut of width 3 mm was created in the top flange of the beam at distance of 625 mm from the left support using a mechanical saw as shown in Fig. 2. The cut was made in two stages. In the first stage, the cut was made up to 7.6 mm depth. It was extended to a depth of 80mm in the second stage. Modal analysis is done for this beam both theoretically and FEM analysis (using ANSYS 9.0). A 1-D analysis was also done using ANSYS 9.0 to obtain the values of the element displacements from mode shapes and to hence calculate the Damage Index for each element. This was not done to get the frequencies, but to rather obtain the displacements for each element of the FE mesh. Youngs modulus was considered as 2 x 1011pa, density as 7700 kg/m3 and Poissons ratio as 0.3. Since the 2m beam can only have 2 modes less than 1000Hz, hence only the 1st 2 modes were taken into account. It is clear from the displacement values that at higher modes, the displacements increase. Also, these displacements are in concordance with the general view of the 1st and 2nd modes. Fig. 3 shows the DI values of the elements corresponding to the two stages of damages. From this figure, the 6th element, whose mid point is located 522.5 mm from the left end, is identified as the damaged element, which is very close to the actual damage location. It is also found that as severity of damage increases, DI values increase correspondingly.
includes direct and indirect costs. The direct cost, often called the agency cost in bridge management systems, consists of costs of material, labour and scaffold, among others. The major component of indirect costs is the user cost obtained by quantifying service losses such as traffic delay. In this analysis, we have taken only direct cost into consideration and see how cost can be reduced with monitoring technique. The maintenance can also be divided into two types - general inspection (i.e. visual inspection) and detailed inspections. General inspection done without any priority to damage is done visually by checking the structure. This is done at an interval of around 2-3 yrs or till the first detailed inspection, depending on the importance of the structure and the budget to be invested on that structure. Detailed inspection or maintenance is done when some damage in the structure is identified and this is done to check that it does not turn to severe damage. Generally, this type of maintenance is done for an interval of 8 to 10yrs. In this study the interval for detailed maintenance is taken as 8yrs. As infrastructure plays very important role in the progress of the country, it is very important the necessary maintenance interventions should be taken into account such that the structure remains functional. So, there should be a monitoring technique for structure to take care of this. The instruments used for monitoring a structure give the signals (data or frequencies) which can be used as input for the methods used for detecting the location and the severity of damage. The continuous monitoring of the structure is done and if there is any problem in the system (or structure) it is detected immediately and necessary measures is taken to make sure, that the damage is not extended any more. So in this way, we will be saving lots of lots of money to be spent unnecessarily on the maintenance of the structure. This monitoring technique is like the famous proverb prevention is better than curing the disease. To show how the cost can be saved with the implementation of monitoring technique, we will go through a steel bridge (Railway Bridge). Case Study: Steel Bridge This bridge is serving the Northern Railways, the Bridge Number is 170 under Gaziabad section and it is situated at 126.630 km Dasna. In Fig.4 shows the section of the steel bridge and the elements dimensions are given below Overall Span of the Bridge = 19.65m Clear Span b/w bearings = 19.4 m Depth of the Channel Section (girder) = 1788 mm Distance between two girders = 1830mm
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1st Top Flange Plate = 360 x 25 x 9825 mm 2nd Top Flange Plate = 360 x 12 x 8983 mm Main Angle Section = 150 x 150 x 16 x 9825 mm Vertical Stiffeners = 125 x 75 x 8 mm Gusset Plate = 330 x 10 x 345 mm All holes are 21.5 mm diameter for 20 mm dia. Shop Rivets and All holes are 23.5 mm dia. for 22 mm dia. Field Rivets. Total steel per span (inclusive of wastage) = 29 tonnes In this analysis, the main concern is to use the direct cost (initial cost) involved in the construction of the structure and see how much saving can be achieved by varying the damage locations and also varying the severity of damages, as the life of structure increases. The maintenance for the structure also varies depending on the location of the damage and the severity. In this steel bridge, the analysis is carried out in three different cases and each case is explained in detail below. As the bridge is symmetrical, half of the span is taken for analysis and which will hold good for the other half span. Case 1: the damage at 3.5m from support Case 2: the damage at 6.5m from support Case 3: the damage at the centre (at joint between both the spans) which will be most severe damage for this bridge. The above three cases are use to show how cost can be reduced by using health monitoring technique over normal periodic maintenance depending upon the severity and location of damage. The initial cost for the construction of the superstructure is approximately Rs. 32,50,000. In this cost of steel, cost of labour, cost of machinery, cost of riveting, cost of painting and miscellaneous cost all are included. The additional cost to be incurred due to implementation of health monitoring for the structure is equal to Rs. 2,30,000. The additional cost due to use of health monitoring technique comes to be 7% of the initial cost. Already, we have seen that there are two types of maintenance, first General inspection (Normal Maintenance) and the second one is detailed inspection. The net present value (NPV) to be incurred in the first 10 yrs for normal maintenance is equal to Rs. 1,77,000. Detailed Maintenance This type of maintenance is carried out whenever it is required i.e. when the damage in the structure should be restricted and when the damage is more severe. But here it is assumed that the detailed maintenance is done for every 8yrs as the damages occurs during this period (8yrs) due to the increased traffic load and other environmental factors. The detailed inspection is carried out in the 14th yr, 22nd yr, 30th yr, 38th yr, 46th yr, 54th yr and 64th yr which are considered for analysis. Bulletin of ACCE (I) 40
There will be comparison between costs for detailed inspection and for health monitoring technique. The accessories used for monitoring the structure are very sensitive and if any damages occur in the system they can be easily detected and necessary measures can be taken to control the damages detected in the structure. So by this, the cost to be invested for repairing the damages detected at the early stage of the damage will be less when compared to the period maintenance (which is done over a regular interval of time, during which a small damage can become more severe demolition necessitating of the structure could be done). Let us assume that damage has occurred in the structure in the 12th yr. Due to the monitoring technique, the damage is detected in the 12th yr itself where as in case of periodic maintenance (normal maintenance) this will be detected and repaired in the 14th yr. In these two years the small damage would have been more severe. Case 1: the Damage at 3.5m from end support Table 1 shows the year in which detailed maintenance and monitoring are conducted, actual cost and NPV in those years for damage at 3.5m. Fig. 5 shows the plot between cost in Rupees and number of years for detailed maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 3.5m from the end support. Fig. 6 shows the plot between NPV (in Rupees) and number of years for detailed maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 3.5m from the end support. From these plots, Net Saving for Damage at 3.5m = Total cost due to Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring = Total cost for Normal Maintenance + Total cost for Detailed Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring Initial Cost for Monitoring = 300000 + 15290000 9145000 230000 = Rs. 62,15,000 Case 2: Damage at 6.5m from end support Table 2 shows the year in which detailed maintenance and monitoring is taken up, actual cost and NPV in those years for damage at 6.5m. In Fig.7 show the plot between cost in rupees and number of years for detailed maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 6.5m from the end support and the Fig.8 show the plot between NPV in rupees and number of years for detailed maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 6.5m from the end support. From these plots, Net Saving for Damage at 6.5m = Total cost due to Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring
= Total cost for Normal Maintenance + Total cost for Detailed Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring Initial Cost for Monitoring = 300000 + 14885000 9190000 230000 = Rs. 57,65,000 Case 3: Damage at centre of the span In Table 3 show the year in which detailed maintenance and monitoring is taken up, actual cost and NPV in those years for damage at 6.5m. In Fig.9 show the plot between Cost in Rupees and Number of years for Detailed Maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 9.5m from the end support and the Fig.10 show the plot between Net Present Value (NPV) in Rupees and Number of Years for Detailed Maintenance and with monitoring for damage at 9.5m from the end support (Centre of the Span). From these plots, Net Saving for Damage at Centre (or Joint) of Span = Total cost due to Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring = Total cost for Normal Maintenance + Total cost for Detailed Maintenance Total cost for Monitoring Initial Cost for Monitoring = 300000 + 17365000 9195000 230000 = Rs. 79,70,000
also more importantly the time and the user cost (user convenience) can be saved greatly due to little or less repairs works. The net savings which are showed are on conservative side (because the damage can be detected at much early stage than what is taken for analysis by using monitoring system).
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Table 4 shows the net savings for the damage at different locations of the span. As the damage approaches the centre of the span, more savings occurs and also as the severity of damages increases, the net savings will be more. The Fig.11 shows the data in the graph form.
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This paper has performed a benefit cost analysis for structural health monitoring. Following conclusions can be derived: 1) For detecting the damage location and the severity of the damage, Naidu and Sohs (2004) method can be effectively used. This method gives more accurate results when compared to any other method. By utilizing health monitoring technique for a structure, initially it may cost more (5% to 15 % of the initial cost). But the cost it saves in the later years is significant which is very well proven from the results of the case study. Directly we may not be able to predict the service life of the structure but if we go through the analysis part of steel bridge, we can see that due to damage at the centre of the span the service life of bridge is restricted. Due to use of this health monitoring technique on the infrastructures (bridges), not only there is considerable saving in the cost of maintenance but 41 April - June 2009
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What is the purpose of admixture? They are used for various purposes,such as: 1. Pumpability/Flowablity of fresh concrete. 2. High strength through reduced water to cement ratio. 3. Durable and non permiable concrete. 4. Self compaction. 5. Freze-Thaw resistance. 6. Corrosion Inhibition. 7. Expansion or shrinkage compensation. 8. To make High early strength concrete/High performance concrete. 9. Retardation and Acceralation of time of setting. Concreting of deep piles and poorly accessible foundations using SCC has been enabled. Admixtures have facilitated many new technologies in Transportation,placement and compaction of concrete because of which it is now possible to place very large pours without construction joints,transportation of concrete for longer distances,placing under congested reinforcement is possible today.
Superplasticizers: They are also known as high-range water reducers,are a group of admixtures,which possess,as their primary function,the ability to produce concrete of given workability,at a lower water to cement ratio than that of control concrete containing no superplasticizers. Superplasticizers are usually water-soluble long chained organic polymers. Superplasticizers based on different types of chemicals are available.some are syenthetic and others are derived from natural products. ASTM C494-92 refers to superplasticizers as water reducing,high range admixtures. According to IS 9103-1999,
Superplasticizer is an admixture for mortar or concrete,which imparts very high workability or allows a large decrease in water content for a given workability. Role of superplasticizers (Admixtures): The three different roles of admixtures are as follows:
Based on there usages the Admixtures are classified as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Air entraining agents. Accelerators. Water reducers. Gas-Forming agents. Alkali-aggregate expansion inihibitors. Water reducing and workability agents. High range water reducers.(Superplasticizers). Grouting agents. Bonding agents. Colouring agents. Anti-Freeze additives. Fungicidal admixtures. Corrosion Inhibiting admixtures. Shrinkage reducing or shrinkage compensation admixtures. 15. Damp proofing and surface hardeners,Etc.
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The changes in the Proprties of Concrete because of Adixture and the savings for the user: Primary properties affected Workability Water cement ratio (hence other properties) Stiffening / setting Air content Cohesion Strength / strength development
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Admixture Benefits: Direct savings - Materials cost Indirect savings - Construction time or method Long term savings - Improved concrete quality and durability. Direct Savings: Lower cement content Improved performance of cement replacements Cheaper aggregate source Indirect savings: Increased workability without loss of strength Savings in plant and labour High early strength Quicker access to or use of the structure Energy savings - precast with thermal curing Special properties - new or improved method of construction Quicker turn around on moulds or shuttering Workability retention Delayed stiffening Improved durability Lower permeability Increased freeze thaw / salt scaling resistance Less remedial repair work Improved surface finish Classification of Admixture : They are broadly classified into the following four groups: 1. Modified Lignosulphonates.(MLS). 2. Poly-Napthalene Sulphonates (PNS) or Sulphonated Napthalene formaldehyde Condensates (SNF) or Beta Napthalene formaldehyde Condensates (BNS). 3. Poly-Melamine Sulphonates (PMS) or Sulphonated Melamine-Formaldehyde Condensates.(SMF). 4. Acrylate Polymer Based (AP) Copolymer of carboxylic Acrylic with Acrylic Ester (CAE). Cross Linked Acrylic Polymer (CLAP). Poly-Carboxylate Ethers (PCE) Multi-Carboxylate Ethers (MCE) Poy-Acrylates. Modified Lignosulphonates (MLS): Lignosulphonates are obtained as a by-product of pulp and paper industry.The modified lignousulphonates are lignousulphonates from which sugars,which cause excessive retardation,have been removed. The water reduction capacity of these type admixture is 8-10%. Poly-Napthalene Sulphonates (PNS): The most widely accepted compounds of this group are the Poly Beta Napthalene Sulphonates (PNS).The synthesis of PNS superplasticizers involves several steps. It begins with sulphonation of molten napthalene with concentrated sulphuric acid at high tempreture and pressure for several hours,followed by condensation of the Beta Napthalene Sulphonate with formaldhyede.It is then neutralized with a suitable alkali and subjected to filtration to eliminate any undesirable by-products.This
Superplasticizer is also Known as SNF. The water reduction capacity of these type admixture is 18-22%. Poly-Melamine Sulphonates (PMS): The synthesis of PMS superplasticizers also involves several steps.First,formaldhyede reacts with the amino groups of melamine in alkaline conditions,yeilding an additional product containing one or more Methyol (CH2OH) groups,depending on the Formaldehyde / Melamine ratio.Sulphonation of one of the Methylol groups Is then performed using sodium bisulphates under the same alkaline conditions. polymerization of the sulphonated monomeric units is than initiated by mild heating under slightly acidic conditions.finally when the desired degree of polymerization has been obtained,the reaction is stopped by increasing the pH values and the final product is filtered to eliminate any undesireable by products.this superplasticizer is also known as SMF. The water reduction capacity of these type admixture is 15-20%. Poly-Carboxylate Ethers (PCE): Poly-Carboxylate is a common term used for substance which are specially used as poly acrylate and multi carboxylate ethers.these are organic polymers bearing carboxylic groups.several poly carboxylate polymers and in particular poly acrylates have been proposed as Superplasticizers for concrete since the early 1980s.ply acrylate polymers are prepared by free radical addition polymerization of acrylic monomers.The water reduction capacity of these type admixture is 35-40%. Mechanism of admixtures: General: Cement particles have a strong tendency to flocculate when they come in contact with water.even atmospheric moisture is sufficient to result in flocculation of cement. This tendency is a result of several type of interactionsVander waals interactions between particles,electrostatic interactions between particles bearing opposite charges,and strong interactions involving water molecules. The flocculation of cement results in the formation of a network of cement particles which trap part of mix water in the network voids.The water which is held by cement
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It is likely that more than one of these phenomena contribute to the fludifying effect of superplasticizers. However there is a broad agreement that following are the three main mechanisms or actions that explain the action of superplasticizers:Adsorption: Superplasticizers act as powerful dispersing agents.As with most dispersing agents in aqeous solutions, they first act by being adsorbed onto the surface of cement particles.A significant portion of the superplasticizers is adsorbed strongly onto cement particles at concentrations normally used in concrete.Adsorption of the negatively charged superplasticizers onto the negetively charged cement particles is made possible by the presence of calcium ions that have been solubilized from cement. De-Flocculation: De-Flocculation takes place in two ways: A) Electrostatic Repulsion: The adsorption of superplasticizer molecule on to the surface of cement grains conveys high negetative surface charges (potential) to all the cement particles.These charges generate electrostatic repulsion between neibouring cement particles.The electrostatic repulsive forces overcome the attractive forces between the cement particles and most certainly play a role in deflocculating and dispersing cement particles.This type of action is predominant in Melamine (SMF) and Napthalene (SNF) based superplasticizers. B) Steric Hindrance Effects:In addition to the electrostatic effect, the dispersion of cement praticles is further assisted by repulsive forces orginating from Steric Effects The adsorbed superplasticizer constitutes a physical barrier to particle- particle contact, that is, the dangling chains of polymer adsorbed on two adjacent surfaces entangle forming a physical barrier preventing particle particle contact. This helps in preventing flocculation and results in the dispersion of cement particles. This type of action is predominant in acrylate polymer based superplasticizers. C) Chemical Interaction: The physical effects uderlying the mode of action of superplasticizers, as described above, are complemented by chemical effects. The chemical action of the superplasticizers is first manifested in the adsorption process-for example,sulphonate based polymers interact preferntially with aluminate phases of the cement,that is,by analogy with sulphonate ions.In addition,several types of superplastcizers molecules are known to inhibit and the growth of hydration products. References:
1. 2. 3. 4. CBD-203.Superplasticizers in concrete- V S Ramachandran. Construction Chemicals- Dr.R V Ranganath Concrete Technology-M S Shetty. Hand book on Admixtures-V S Ramachandran.
mechanisims,to explain the mode of action of Superplasticizers. They are as follows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lubricating film between cement particles,reducing inter-particle friction. Dispersion of cement particles,releasing the water trapped within the cement flocs. Change in the morophology of the hydration products which contributes to increased workability of the mix. selective blocking of reactive surface sites by superplasticizer molecule. Induced electrostatic repulsion between particles. Induced steric hinderance preventing particle-particle contact.
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There are unfavorable movements which poor structures have to experience under some undesirable conditions. They are movements due to excessive snow loads, earthquakes, wind, structural deterioration and so on, and those movements have different characteristics due to the natures of the causes. Collapsing Movements due to Snow Loads Structures standing on the principle of arches and domes are sometimes in danger of yielding collapsing movements due to unstable deformation of the compressive members. One of such examples is the dome for a trade center in Bucharest which collapsed in January 1963 (Fig.ures.1 Bulletin of ACCE (I)
however, we have to take into account dynamic effect of wind, and motions of the structure due to this effect. Dynamic effect of wind due to disturbance in the wind flow itself is sometimes referred to as buffeting or gusty effect, and resonance of the structure with this effect is often discussed. Another and more important effect of wind is vortexinduced vibration, and still more important is self-excited oscillation or flutter starting from the vortex-induced vibration. In such a motion the structure takes in energy from constant air flow around it to grow the motion until it becomes catastrophic. The collapse of Tacoma Narrows Bridge is explained as the result of such phenomena (Figures. 5 and 6). In general the magnitude as well as the mode of self-excited motion is very big and exceeds our imagination, often being even spectacular. Such motions are comparatively easy to record visually, since the time of strong wind can be predicted, the motion of this kind lasts for relatively long time and the photographer is not always in a dangerous situation.
in which the natural period is determined by the mass and rigidity of isolation structure. The natural period is slightly elongated if the amplitude is made larger. The elongation, however, is minute. Thus, the above equation (1) can be considered valid for all practical cases. This is another advantage of the pendulum seismic isolator compared to the laminated rubber system, of which the deformability is limited. Wide selection of materials is available for the hanger. For example, technology for fireproofing has already reached a mature state if steel is to be used. As discussed above, seismic isolators using pendulum principle possess considerable merit. Considering that seismic isolators must also function as a part of structural support, simple pendulum shown in (a) of Figure7 is obviously difficult to use. Natural period of physical pendulum shown in (b), on the other hand, fluctuates along with the location of center of mass as well as the moment of inertia of the system. Thus, translational pendulum shown in (c), whose natural period is only affected by the hanger length as in the simple pendulum, would be appropriate for use as a seismic isolation device. One possible application of the translational pendulum seismic isolator is for individual floors. A floor suspended from a girder of a building frame as shown in Figure 8 was adopted for the exhibition rooms of an actual museum for pottery and porcelain wares (in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, completed in 2001). The area of the suspended floor is about 1,000 m2, and its mass is about 1,000 tons. Hinges having universal joints are used for the upper and lower ends of the hanger. If the hanger is made to be 4.5 m long, Equation (1) yields a natural period of more than 4 seconds, which is considered sufficiently long for seismic isolation. A series of seismic isolation tests showed that the system was effective to minimize the seismic effects on the floor. Rocking Pendulum Isolators A paddle isolator is based on a rocking pendulum principle, the concept of which has a long history. The first example of isolated foundations in Japan was designed by Ryuichi Oka in 1932, as a column having a spherical end at the bottom and connected to the superstructure via a spherical hinge at the top. Due to rocking motion of the column, the superstructure moves in a trochoidal curve. This concept, however, was impractical as production of spherical elements required considerable skill and manhours, and column design sometimes interfered with overall architectural planning. In the present design rocking motion of the sphere was resolved into the orthogonal components along the X- and Y-axes on a 49 April - June 2009
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Seismic Isolation Seismic isolation is a technology to control the response of structures due to earthquake ground motion. The isolation technology is normally applied in combination with energy-absorbing damping systems. The most popular seismic isolation system is the laminated rubber shoes that support the structures. However, there are other isolation systems effective to control seismic motions in more rational manners than laminated rubber system, which will be described in this section. Pendulum Isolators A pendulum system is one of the basic methods of seismic isolation, having the same fundamental principle in common with seismographs. As shown in Figure 7, pendulums used in engineering include (a) simple pendulum, (b) physical pendulum, and (c) translational pendulum. It is well known that the natural period T of a simple pendulum is given as follows with the length of the hanger L, and the gravitational acceleration g.
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plane coordinate. Then, a mechanism was designed which assigns the components of the rocking motion in the directions of X- and Y-axes to the upper and lower ends of a column. Paddle isolator was named after a kayak paddle, as the form of the present column resembles it. As shown in Figure 9, a paddle isolator consists of a column provided with blades on the top and bottom ends whose curvatures are designed to be orthogonal to each other. This column allows resolution of any horizontal motion in an arbitrary direction into two directions, and the isolated part of the building is free to move in the horizontal direction. Referring to Figure 10, the natural period of a rocking pendulum is determined by the length of the isolation column L and the radius of curvature of a blade R, and can be obtained by Equation (2).
of their mother systems into the motion of themselves. So the effect of tuned-mass dampers can be visually confirmed by means of scaled model tests, where the transfer of motion from the structure to the dampers is clearly observed. HUMAN-INDUCED VIBRATION Soft footbridges often produce significant vibrational motion that is induced by the movement of pedestrians crossing the bridges. It is interesting to note that when the movement of the bridge, especially the transverse horizontal component of which is big enough to be felt by the pedestrians, they are apt to try to secure themselves by tuning their steps to the period of the motion of the bridge, resulting in amplification of the bridge motion. Vibration of Millennium Bridge in London was a typical example, which was solved by incorporating a passive damping system in the bridge. DESIGNED MOVEMENTS Pantadome System Structures are sometimes designed to move during construction for safe, efficient and economical erection. A patented structural system called Pantadome System was developed by the author with such an idea for a rational construction of spatial structures, and it was successfully applied to the structure of World Memorial Hall completed in Kobe in 1984. Pantadome System has since been applied to the Sant Jordi Sports Palace in Barcelona, the National Indoor Stadium of Singapore and some important structures of wide spans realized in Japan. The principle of Pantadome System is to make a dome or a domical structure geometrically unstable for a period in construction so that it is foldable during its erection. This can be done by temporarily taking out the members which lie on a hoop circle. Then the dome is given a kinematic mechanism, that is, a controlled movement, like a 3-D version of a parallel crank or a pantagraph which is popularly applied to drawing instruments or a power collector of an electric car (hence the name, Pantadome). By folding the dome in this way, the constituent members of the dome can be assembled on a lower level. The assembly work is thus done safely, quickly and economically, since it can be carried out near the ground level. Since the movement of a Pantadome during erection is a controlled one with only one freedom of movement in the vertical direction, guying cables or bracing members which are indispensable in conventional structures to assure their lateral stability against wind or seismic forces are not necessary in erection of a Pantadome structure. The movement and deformation of the whole shape of the Pantadome during erection are three dimensional and may look spectacular and rather complicated, but they are all kinematically determinate and easily controlled. Three kinds of hinges are incorporated in the
One of the features of the rocking pendulum isolator is that its natural period is not governed by the mass of structure to be supported or any mechanical properties of the materials used in the isolator, similar to the translational pendulum isolator. On the other hand, the paddle isolation column may be designed with any length, unlike the translational pendulum isolator. As such, isolating layer may either be placed just underneath the foundation, or the entire ground floor may be designed as an isolating layer. This enables design of seismic isolators having longer periods, which were conventionally deemed impossible. In order to confirm the effect of the paddle isolators, acrylic specimens (shown in Figure 12, the floor panel being 40 cm by 40 cm) were manufactured and tested. The test results indicated fairly constant natural periods for paddle isolators, regardless of the amplitude of the given motion or the mass of superstructure. Furthermore, the torsion movement was hardly observed even when the mass supported by the isolation layer was largely shifted off the center. Figure 11 shows the rates of the observed acceleration responses when the seismic motion based on the records of the actual earthquakes were applied to the vibration table. As shown, response in the upper part of the isolating layer was reduced sufficiently. It was also confirmed that the effect is not influenced by the direction of input seismic motion. Damping Systems Damping systems are often used in combination with seismic isolators, but they are of course used by themselves as well for the purpose of energy absorption. Most commonly used in vibration control are viscous, frictional, hysteretic and tuned-mass dampers. The first three of the above dampers control the vibrational motion of the structures by dissipating the energy in the form of heat, while the tuned-mass dampers transform the energy Bulletin of ACCE (I) 50
Pantadome System which rotate during the erection. Their rotations are all uni-axial ones, and of the most simple kind. Therefore, all these hinges are fabricated in the same way as normal hinges for usual steel frames. Rocking Stones Rocking stones are stones originally created by Nature that are movable by human power, or at least looking to be movable. Here is an example of artificial rocking stone of 36 tons that can be moved by a little child. Repetitive push of the child in tune with the period of the rocking stone brings the stone into a motion of slow but significant amplitude. Flying Carp The KOINOBORI is a Japanese traditional carp made of fabric which people fly in the breeze in early days of May every year to celebrate the growth of children. The normal size of a KOINOBORI is 2 to 5 meters in length. KAZO is a town in the suburb of Tokyo that has been famous for its production of KOINOBORI since more than one hundred years ago. We can still see excellent craftsmen who hand-paint beautiful KOINOBORIS in factories of KAZO City. In 1988 volunteers of KAZO City, who were members of Junior Chamber International, got an idea of fabricating and flying a gigantic KOINOBORI of 100m to advertise their city to the world. However, they did not know how to produce such a huge carp properly. They did not even know if such a monstrous feature might fly in the air at all. The author had an opportunity to assist them by establishing the technical basis for the possibility of flying this gigantic fabric fish in the air. He showed by theory as well as experiments that a huge KOINOBORI could be designed to fly in the breeze of the same wind speed at which normal carps fly. By this design theory and structural details a huge KOINOBORI was designed, it was fabricated by the voluntary members of KAZO City, and finally it succeeded to fly elegantly in the sky. Since then flying of the Jumbo KOINOBORI became an annual event of KAZO City, being celebrated in the beginning of May every year. CONCLUSIVE REMARKS Moving aspects of structures have been described. Although structures are normally regarded stationary, there are many cases where structures move significantly. The most undesirable motion of a structure is the one due to collapsing effects of external agencies such as snow, earthquake, terrorism and deterioration of materials. Structures sometimes produce uncontrolled motion due to wind effects The most dramatic motion is observed when structures show self-excited vibration often started by Krmn Vorticies as in the catastrophic example of Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Since the task of structural Bulletin of ACCE (I) 51
engineers is to create strong and safe structures, we should be aware of those undesirable movements and should always try to find the means to cope with those phenomena. Sometimes we can make the motion of structures controlled one. This can be achieved by means of seismic isolation to cope with earthquakes, and general dampers to cope with other vibrational effects. We can also design the structures so that they experience significant movements in the process of construction for the sake of safety, efficiency and economy of construction, as in the example of Pantadome System. Movement is sometimes the intended function to be performed by a structure. One of such cases is an artificial rocking stone of 36tons which the author designed to be moved by a little child. Another example is a huge fabric carp of 100m in length that can fly in the breeze, fabricated by volunteers of a small town in the suburb of Tokyo under the technical guidance of the author. Although it is impossible for those volunteers of the small town to make a jumbo jet aircraft, they could fabricate a carp which is much bigger than Boeing 747, and fly it in the breeze of Kasiserslautern in Germany as well as of their hometown where they have been playing with it for eighteen years. Author Affiliation : Mamoru Kawaguchi, KAWAGUCHI & ENGINEERS, mk@kawa-struc.com REFERENCE 1. A. Beles et al (1966), Some Observation on the Failure of a Dome of Great Span, 1st International Conference of Spade Structures, University of Surrey 2. 3. S. Montague (1985), Milan Roof is Total Write Off, New Civil Engineer, April 25 E.B.Farquharson, et al., Aerodynamic Stability of Suspension Bridges with Special Reference to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Bul. Of Univ. Washington Eng. Exp. Station, No.116, 1949-1954. M. Kawaguchi, I. Tatemichi (2000), Seismic Isolation Systems and Their Application in Space Structures, IASS Symposium on Bridging Large Spans; From Antiquity to the Present, Istanbul
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5. M. Kawaguchi, I. Tatemichi (2000), Characteristics of A Space Structure Seismically Isolated by Rocking Pendulums, IASS-IACM 2000, Fourth International Colloquium on Computation of Shell & Spatial Structures, June 2000, Chania, Greece 6. M. Kawaguchi (2003), Physical Models as Powerful Weapons in Structural Design, IASS Symposium on Shell and Spatial Structures from Models to Realization, Montpellier, September, 2003
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ACCE(I) Bangalore Centre organising the 1st Technical Evening Lecture on INNOVATIVE PLASTIC FORM WORK on 2nd June 2009 at the Karnataka Sate Club Cricket Association (Club House), M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, M G Road, Bangalore 560 001. Mr. M S Sudarshan, Chairman, ACCE(I) BLC Welcomed the members and delivering the address, Mr. Nagesh P, Secretary, ACCE(I) BLC. Introduce the Speaker, Mr. Victor Warden Vice President- Formuvation Engineers India & Mr. Jigesh Desai President, Formuvation Engineers India delivering the technical talk. Mr. Umesh B Rao, President, ACCE(I) give Presidential Address, Dr. M N Hegde, Secretary ICI-KB giving the vote of thanks. The above programme was sponsored by G M V R Form Work Engineers Bangalore & Formuvation Engineers India. ACCE(I) Bangalore Centre organising the Technical Evening Lecture on New Road Building Technology on 15th June 2009 at the Karnataka Sate Club Cricket Association (Club House), M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, M G Road, Bangalore 560 001. Mr. John Winters, President, Romix Holdings Ltd, Australia delivered the lecture. Introduction of Soilfix into India: Romix Holdings Ltd was established in 1996. Today it has its Corporate Offices in Hong Kong and Mauritius. Romix produces a Polymer based product SOILFIX, for stabilizing the Base layer for all Roads - Village, City and Highways. Over the past 13 years SOILFIX has been used in over 20 countries including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, The Middle East, Australia, China and Europe. In 2007 Romix entered the Indian market where we now have worked with AFCONS, Prestige, Patel Engineering, Bellary Iron Ore Mines, PWD and Rural Roads. Mr. Winters oversees the operations of Romix in more than 30 countries. Mr. John Winters is committed together with our Indian Distributor, Rockwell Road Solutions to "Build Better Roads for India. This will include the establishment of our First Manufacturing Plant in India in 2009. The above programme was sponsored by RockWell Road Solutions, Bangalore
explained with the help of several slides. The reasons for the difference between colours shown on shade cards and actual application were explained. Hence the need for trial and error method for choosing the most appropriate colour scheme was expressed. Mr. Raghu of Nippon paints talked about the various paints available with them which includes odourless emulsion and anti-bacterial emulsion. These are the only paints to have obtained the approval of IGBC. The technical evening was sponsored by M/s Nippon paints.
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REPORT ON THE ONE DAY RESOURCE MEET ON WATER AND WASTE TREATMENT CONDUCTED AT HOTEL PAI VISTA ON 7TH MAY, 2009. In view of disseminating information regarding the current
trends in Water Treatments, Sewage Treatment and Solid Waste Disposal, ACCE, Mysore Center organized a novel meet where leading consulting firms in these fields presented their technologies. The meet was inaugurated by Dr. H.C. Shanth Chandra, Chairman, KPCB, Professor Jagannatha V., Professor (Hudco Chair) SIUD delivered the keynote address and deliberated on the main principles of current technologies and ideas in water and waste treatment. He stressed on the 3-Rs Reduce, Recycle and Reuse and gave details of developments in India and abroad in this field. The main participating firms Murali Shesh, Enviro Engineers, Brook Field Technologies, Leaving Water Fine Technologies and Dwatts presented their processes for sewage treatment like disk filtration and MBR technologies showing the advantages of economy, efficiency reduced area requirements, power saving etc. M/s Leaving Water Fine Technologies also dealt with latest developments in water treatment. Two firms dealing with solid waste treatment M/s Southern Cojen and M/s Renewgen Venture explained the concept of waste separation, reduction and pollution free burning for power generation and brought out the advantages and potentials of modern solid waste treatment. M/s Paul from ESHQ consultants explain the concept of evaluation treatment technologies on the basis of carbon trading. The seminar was well attended and consisted of delegates from KUWS&DB, BWSSB, KPCB, MCC, MUDA, Industries of Mysore Region, Mysore University, SKUD, SJCE, NIE, Environmental and Civil Engineering Students apart from ACCE delegates.
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The 10th Annual General-body Meeting of ACCE(I) Maduari Centre was held on 30th May 2009. The following office bearers, who had been elected unanimously, took charge. Chairman Prof.V. Muthu Secretary Er.R.Narendrakumar Treasurer Er.V.Maran Managing Committee Members : Prof.K.Arunachalam Er.L.Ganesh Khanna, Er.N.Essaki, Tirunelveli On June 16th Ar. P. R. S. Sivakumar gave a presentation on Colours. The three basic colour schemes namely, Monochromatic, Analagous, and Complementary were
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1. ACCE Annual Convention, Awards Presentation, AGM 2009 & National Seminar on Urban Architecture, Construction & Engineering Urban Renaissances (UrbanACE 2009) Date : 24th 25th July 2009 Venue : Bapuji MBA College of Auditorium, S. S. Layout, Davangere Organised by : ACCE(I) Davangere Centre Contact : Mr. G B Suresh Kumar Chairman Organising Committee ACCE(I) Davangere Centre 3121/3, First Floor, Bapuji High School Road, Davangere. Head Quarters : 2, UVCE Alumni Association Building, K R Circle, Bangalore 560 001. Tel: 91-80-22247466 , Fax: 91-80-22219012 Email: admin@accehq.net Website: www.accehq.net (for more details see page no..) 2. Workshop on Analysis of case studies (Forensic Geotechnical Engineering) Date : 12th September 2009 Venue : Golden Jubilee Seminar hall, Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 Contact : Prof. G L Sivakumar Babu Secretary, Karnataka Geotechnical Centre Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 Email: gls@civil.iisc.ernet.in Tel: 80-22933124. 3. National Seminar on Green Structures for Sustainability Date : 10th 11th October 2009 Venue : The Institution of Engineers (India) Building, Allahabad Local Centre Contact : Prof. Y P Gupta, Technical Advisor & Chairman, ICI-ALC A-148 Mehdauri Colony, Allahabad 211 004. UP Tel: 91- 94152 39737 (M) Tel/Fax: 91 5322545620 Email: yashpalg1@rediffmail.com 4. National Seminar & Exhibition on Recent Developments in Design and C o n s t r u c t i o n Technologies (REDECON 2009) Date : November / December 2009 Venue : Convention Centre, NIMHANS Campus, Hosur Road, Bangalore Contact : Chairman Organising Committee, REDECON 2009 Association of Consulting Civil Engineers (India), Bangalore Centre, No.2, UVCE Alumni Association Building, K R Circle, Bangalore 560 001. Tel: 080- 22247466, Tel/Fax: 22219012, Email: admin@accehq.net Website: www.accehq.net
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Name BORAIAH CHAITANYA K K ANAND N RASHMI B NALANDA Y D G SHIVAKUMAR VECHA VARADARAJULU RAVINDRA V KHANDEKAR ECMAS CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS PVT. LTD., A DEVENDIRAN PRADEEP P P SENTHIL KUMAR R PRAKASH M THANGAVEL C RATHNA SABAPATHI G SARAVANAKUMAR AFZAL HUSSAIN KHAN SUBHASH C YARAGAL SURESH PAI P K DAMODAR SHENOY JUGUL PAUL SALDANHA NITTE EDUCATION TRUST SHAILESH KUMAR JHA R KIRAN NIRMALA D B ROOPANJALI S SATISH R PRADEEP M P Dr. P S RAGHUPRASAD KAMATH GANESH MADHUKAR SONAWANE RAJENDRA SUDAMRAO KALE BHAGWAN MADHUKAR BOTHRA SIDDHARTH INDRANATH PRAKASH H V KATAMAREDDI UPPAIAH MANISHA SHARMA KIRKI ORI POST TENSION SERVICES INDIA PVT. LTD. SAYED BURHANUDDIN SHUTTARI C K RAVINDRANATHAN H N NIRANJAN R C RAJASHEKARAPPA C VIRUPAKSHAPPA ARAVIND H B S K SHIVAKUMAR M SHARANAPPA I P EKORAMARADHYA C CHANDRAPPA RAVIKUMAR S B S RAVI MANJUNATH S NAVEEN KUMAR K V SHIVAKUMAR B E SHANTHAMURTHY G B K A NAGAAJA SETTY A B RAVI K G SURESH ABY PAUL K PUTTAIAH PRAKASH S CHINIWAL
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Place Banglaore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore Chennai Chennai Coimbatore Coimbatore Coimbatore Avinashi Tirupur Avinashi Tirupur Hyderabad Srinivasnagar Mangalore Mangalore Mangalore Mangalore Mumbai Mysore Mysore Mysore Mysore Mysore Mysore Nagpur Nashik Nashik Dahanu-Nashik Chickaballapur Kakinada AP Udaipur (Raj) Arunachal Pradesh Vadodara Aurangabad MS Bangalore Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Davangere Bangalore Bangalore Bangalore
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
DAT ENGINEERS INDIA PVT. LTD.
C2C in Civil Engineering 275/B/10, 19th Main, 10th Cross, Rajajinagar 1st N Block, Bangaiore-560 010. Tel/Fax : 080-23522610 E-mail : dat@bgl.vsnl.net.in
MACSEDES CONSULTANTS
Civil, Structural & Geotechnical Engineers, 7/6, II Cross, Palace Cross Road, Bangalore-560 020. Tel: 23366398 (M) 98455 11569 E-mail :macsedes@yahoo.com
DESIGN CONSULTANTS
Consultants for Shells, Space Structures, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting of Structures, Industrial Structures and Machine Foundations, 504, 10-B Main, First Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 011, (India). Tel / Fax : 91-80-26561134 E-mail : designcon@yahoo.com
B.R. RAMESHA
SEACON - SERVE, Structural, Electrical & Allied Consultancy Services,
18, Ratnavilasa Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore-4. Tel/fax: 41204459 E-mail : brramesha@rediffmail.com
SPARTAN ASSOCIATES
K.N. NARAYANA IYENGAR, Chartered Engineer Regd Valuers, Consulting Engineers, 26, Jyothi Mansion, 5th Cross, Malleswaram Circle, Bangalore-560 003. Ph: 41280764/23446027 E-mail: spartanassociates@yahoo.co.in www.valuers.in
SUPARNA ASSOCIATES
Consulting Engineers West of Chord Road, 633, 2nd Block, 3rd Stage, Basaveswaranagar, Bangalore-560 079. Phone: 23222238/23226576 E-mail: dhwajan@gmail.com / dhwajan@yahoo.com
InCiCon-AG
Innovative Civil Engineering Conclave 1400, 2nd Floor, 41st Main, Kanakapura Road, Sarakki Gate, J P Nagar 1st Phase, Bangalore 560 078. Tel: 91-80-22447700, Fax: 91-80-22446976 Email: inci_ag@rediffmail.com
S. RATNAVEL
SCEBA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Roads, Rehabilitation, Restoring Geotechnical, Turnkey Projects, Penthose, Bougainvillae 106, P. T. Rajan Road, Madurai - 625 014 Tel: 0452-2522555 / 2522455 E-mail: ratsiit@gmail.com
M.S. RAMASWAMY
Chartered Engineer, Principal Consultant, M/s M.S.R.Consultants, Heavy Engineering, Design, Architecture in since 1980, Interiors, Project Management & Services Consultants, 15/1, Sir Krishna Rao Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore- 560 004.. Tel: 91-08-26567675 Fax: :91-80-26569069 E-mail: msrconsultants@rediffmail.com
L BALAJI
B.E., M.I.E., F.I.V., M.I.S.E., M.I.C.A., M.I.C.I., P.G.D.G.S.V., M.B.A. Professional Engineer (India) , Registered Valuers C-1/433/99, Panel Valuer for Banks, Plot No. 11, SBI First Colony, 3rd Street, (Behind Reliance World), By-pass Road, Madurai-625010 Tel: 0452-4375336, 2383988, (F) 4373367/9842868351
S.P. SRINIVASAN
Madurai ES Consultancy Services Private Limited Industrial Structures, Bridges, Prestressed, Concrete, Chimneys, Silos 37/17, West Masi Street, Madurai-625 001. Tel/Fax : 0452-2348275 E-mail: madurai.es@gmail.com
S. PARAMESH BABU
CSN Engineers & Contractors, No. 37, 6th Cross Road, Azad Nagar, Bangalore - 560 018. Tel : 26748859, 9902957368 E-mail : paramesh_csn@rediffmail.com
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THANKS TO PATRONS
ACCE(I) thanks the following patrons for their generous contributions towards the creation of a Permanent Fund for publishing this Bulletin
ADARSH DEVELOPERS Builders of Aesthetically Designed and Quality, Luxury Apartments for Modern Living Standard, 10, Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalore-560 001. Tel : 080-41343400 Fax : 080-41343777 Web: www.adarshdevelopers.com E-Mail : adarsh@giasbgol.vsnl.net.in CHAMUNDESHWARI BUILD TECH PVT. LTD. No. 2438, Kumara Krupa, Opp. Bangalore Vihara Kendra, 9th Main, BSK 2nd Stage, Bangalore-560 070. Tel. : 26764974, 26764403/05 Fax : 26762978 E-mail: info@eagletonindia.com EON DESIGNERS Architects, Consulting Engineers & Interior Designers 35-B, Vasavi Colony, Behind Vikrampuri, Secunderabad-15. Tel/Fax : 040-27847847 E-mail : eondes@sify.com HYGRADE STEEL PVT. LTD. Manufacturers, Torkari, A/85, 31st Cross, 7th Main, Jayanagar,Bangalore-560 082. Tel : 26546384 , Fax : 080-26545952 E-mail : nsm456@yahoo.com MADHU INDUSTRIES Manufacturers of Steel Doors & Windows with ISI Mark & UPVC Doors & Windows No. 30, Pillagaganhalli, Gottigere, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560 083, Tel : 28429778 / 779, Fax : 28429780 Email : madhuwindow@satyam.net.in MEGH STEELS PVT. LTD. Distributors TATA Structura and Dealer in Iron & Steel, A/85, 31st Cross, 7th Main,Jayanagar, Bangalore-560 082. Tel : 26546384 , Fax : 080-26545952 Mobile : 9845013513 E-mail : nsm456@yahoo.com M/s. NAGARJUNA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD. Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad - 500 482 Andhra Pradesh, India. Tel : 22224328, 22226214, Telex : 0425-6914 Grams : Buildwell Nagarjuna-Where Quality is Trac NAGADI CONSULTANTS PVT. LTD. Committed to Reliable Accurate and Professional Service, Regd. Head Office : 1014, 1st Main, IV Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-560010. Tel :23303007, 23156076 E-mail : bangalore@nagadi.co.in SBS ASSOCIATES Engineers and Contractors, Class I Contractors in Karnataka PWD 795/E, 3rd Cross, A Main, Vijayanagar, Bangalore - 560 040. Tel. ; (R) 23356839 SHRI B. SUNDARAMURTHY 44/4, 4th Main Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore-560 055. Tel : 23348725 E-mail: moorthy_30@hotmil.com TECHNOART CONSTRUCTIONS PVT. LTD. Mayaventure (P) Ltd. Southend Road, Above Canara Bank, 3 rd Floor, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560 004. THE DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS H.K. Nanjunda Swamy, Consulting Engineer and Partner 20/1, II Floor, III Cross, Chikkanna Gardens Road, Shankarapuram. Bangalore - 560 004. Tel : 41127098 Tel/Fax : 26521379 UNITED PRECISION ENGINEERS PVT. LTD. Engineers and Contractors 67, Lavina Cour ts, I Floor, 102, 8th Main, 7th Cross, RMV Extension, , Bangalore - 560 080 Tel/fax : 23612825/23618965 E-mail : cavhydro@yahoo.co.in
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