Introduction

• Burj Khalifa (formally Dubai) is the new tallest

tower in the world.
• Construction began on 21 September 2004 &
completed on 1 October 2009.
• The building was officially opened on 4 January 2010
• Height of the Tower is 828m .
• It’s Owner is EMAAR Properties with total
investments of US$ 1.5 billion.
• The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings and
Merrill (SOM)
• Adrian smith was chief architect.
Architectural Concept
 The context of the Burj
Dubai being located in the
city of Dubai, UAE, drove the
inspiration for the building
form to incorporate cultural
and historical particular to
the region.
 The influences of the Middle
Eastern domes and pointed
arches in traditional buildings,
spiral imagery in Middle
Eastern architecture, resulted
in the tri-axial shape of the
building
Architecture Pinnacle

Spire

Burj Dubai includes163 habitable floors Communication

plus 46 maintenance levels in the

(L160)

spire and 9 parking levels in the Office (L153)

basement. Observator

Floor Area 309,473 m2 y (L123)

 The Residences Residence

(L108)

900 residence from floor

 Armani Residences
Armani Residences Dubai has
been designed personally by Giorgio Hotel (L39)
Armani. 144 suites.
Main Structure & Design
 The tower superstructure of Burj Dubai is designed
as an all reinforced concrete building with high
performance concrete from the foundation level to
level 156, and is topped with a structural steel braced
frame from level 156 to the pinnacle.
 Designers purposely shaped the structural concrete
Burj Dubai – “Y” shaped in plan – to reduce the wind
forces on the tower, as well as to keep the structure
simple and foster constructability.
 The structural system can be described as a
“buttressed” core. Each wing, with its own high
performance concrete corridor walls and perimeter
columns, buttresses the others via a six-sided central
core, or hexagonal hub
Main Structure & Design
Structural Analysis & Design
 The structure was analyzed for gravity
(including P-Delta analysis), wind, and
seismic loadings by ETABS version 8.4 .
 The three-dimensional analysis model
consisted of the reinforced concrete
walls, link beams, slabs, raft, piles, and
the spire structural steel system.
 The full 3D analysis model consisted of
over73,500 shells and 75,000 nodes
Structural Analysis & Design
Design Code
The reinforced concrete structure was designed in accordance with the
requirements of ACI 318-02 Building Code Requirements for Structural
Concrete.
Structural Analysis & Design
Dynamic Analysis
• The dynamic analysis indicated the first mode is lateral sidesway with a
period of 11.3 seconds .
• The second mode is a perpendicular lateral sidesway with a period of 10.2
seconds.
• Torsion is the fifth mode with a period of 4.3 seconds
Variation of Wind Velocity with
Height

 The viscosity of air

reduces its velocity
adjacent to the
earth’s surface to
almost zero.
Foundations
Piles
 The Tower raft is supported by 194 boredcast-in-
place piles
 1.5m diameter and 47.45m long with the tower raft
founded at -7.55m
 The C60 (cube strength) SCC concrete was placed
by the tremie method utilizing polymer slurry.
When the rebar cage was placed in the piles, special
attention was paid to orient the rebar cage such
that the raft bottom rebar could be threaded
through the numerous pile rebar cages without
interruption, which greatly simplified the raft
construction.
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