Engineering the world's tallest - Burj Dubai

CTBUH 2008, 8th World Congress - Tall and Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future, Congress Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-52

  Baker, William F ^a   Korista, D Stanton ^a   Novak, Lawrence C ^a  

^a Owings and Merrill LLP   (United States)

Author keywords

Burj Dubai; Skyscraper; Structure; Tower; World's Tallest

Indexed keywords

OFFICE BUILDINGS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TALL BUILDINGS;

BURJ DUBAI; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS; WORLD'S TALLEST;

TOWERS;

EID: 84900856189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE (ACI) (2002), Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-02) and Commentary,Reported by ACI Committee.
2. BAKER, KORISTA, NOVAK, PAWLIKOWSKI, & YOUNG (2007), "Creep & Shrinkage and the Design of Supertall Buildings-A Case Study: The Burj Dubai Tower", ACI SP-246: Structural Implications of Shrinkage and Creep of Concrete.
3. BAKER, NOVAK, SINN & VIISE (2000), "Structural Optimization of 2000-Foot Tall 7 South Dearborn Building", Proceedings of the ASCE Structures Congress 2000-Advanced Technology in Structural Engineering and 14th Analysis & Computational Conference.
4. GARDNER (2004), "Comparison of prediction provisions for drying shrinkage and creep of normal strength concretes", Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol.30, No.5, pp 767-775.
5. IRWIN, BAKER, KORISTA, WEISMANTLE & NOVAK (2006), "The Burj Dubai Tower: Wind Tunnel Testing of Cladding and Pedestrian Level", Structure Magazine, published by NCSEA, November 2006, pp 47-50.
6. KUCHMA, LEE, BAKER & NOVAK (2007), "Design and Analysis of Heavily Loaded Reinforced Concrete Link Beams for Burj Dubai",accepted for publication by ACI (MS #S-2007-030).
7. NOVAK & SPRENGER (2002), "Deep Beam with Opening", ACI SP-208: Examples for the Design of Structural Concrete with Strut-and-tie Models, Karl-Heinz Reineck Editor, pp129-143.