The crown and the curtain wall
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The Nations Bank Corporate Center is a building where structural integrity meets with aesthetics. It boasts of a spectacular skycraper top utilizing individually designed masts, an aluminum, glass and stone curtain wall both requiring intensive analysis to satisfy the architect's design intent. Its facade design is also complicated by the engineering of the curtain wall. Central to the creation of this concrete tower is the extreme ingenuity, care and extraordinary cooperation among the architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors involved in the project.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1992
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Blast wall bravura
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A computer simulation of an explosion on the Beryl Bravo offshore oil and gas production platform in the North Sea shows that carbon fibers may be used to reinforce the blast walls to meet safety requirements. The use of carbon-fiber on the support columns of the blast wall in combination with modifications in the column connections to the structure should provide the needed blast resistance. Dynamic analysis shows that the walls can withstand a greater load than that predicted by conventional implicit finite element analysis.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1996
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Wall system makes the cut
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A contractor involved in the widening ofInterstate 294 near Chicago was able to quickly and economically solve its support slopes problems by using composite wall system made of molded concrete blocks and high-density polyethylene geogrids. This combination, known as the Genesis wall system, is based on their previous experience regarding the engineering designs of walls. The only problem encountered were on the concretefooting slab, wherein a compacted stone would have done better.
Publication Name: Civil Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0885-7024
Year: 1992
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