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    The document summarizes information about steel space frame roofs. It discusses space frames as structural systems that transfer loads three-dimensionally using linear elements. It provides examples of space frame applications including airports, cultural centers, and stadiums. Diagrams show different types of space frames based on curvature, number of grid layers, and frame components. Case studies are presented on the Eden Project in England and Shah Alam Sports Complex in Malaysia, describing their geodesic dome designs, node and tube components, and erection methods using scaffolding and cranes.

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    The document summarizes information about steel space frame roofs. It discusses space frames as structural systems that transfer loads three-dimensionally using linear elements. It provides examples of space frame applications including airports, cultural centers, and stadiums. Diagrams show different types of space frames based on curvature, number of grid layers, and frame components. Case studies are presented on the Eden Project in England and Shah Alam Sports Complex in Malaysia, describing their geodesic dome designs, node and tube components, and erection methods using scaffolding and cranes.

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    BACHELOR OF QUANTITY SURVEYING

    (HONS)

    CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY III


    [BLD 60304]

    STEEL SPACE FRAME ROOF

    Presented by: Lecturer:

    ERIC WEE 0329601 IR CHAI VOON CHIET


    LIM XIAO SHI 0324410
    LOH WEI TING 0328314
    MELVIN TAN 0323938
    Climber dome
    SPACE FRAME

    International Association for Shell and


    Spatial Structures (IASS) :
    a structural system, where linear elements are
    assembled in a way that loads are transferred
    in a three-dimensional manner
    SPACE FRAME

    Truss-like Rigid

    Lightweight Interlocking
    struts
    Use of Application
    London Stansted
    Airport
    Heydar Aliyev
    Cultural Centre

    Shah Alam
    Biosphere 2, Arizona Sports Complex

    Houston Astrodome,
    Texas
    Stadium Negara, Kuala
    Lumpur
    Type – curvature

    Flat covers Barrel vault Spherical


    dome
    Type – number of grid layers

    Double layer Triple layer


    Single layer
    Frame components

    Mero KK node

    Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre


    Frame components

    Octatube node connector Triodetric connector

    Multi hinge ‘nodeless’

    Hemispherical dome connector


    Erection method

    Element or Block erection Scaffold Lift – up


    CASE STUDIES
    Cornwall,
    England

    EDEN PROJECT
    Shah Alam,
    Malaysia

    SHAH ALAM SPORTS


    COMPLEX
    EDEN PROJECT
    Multiple Greenhouse Complex

    Size: 23,000 square metre/


    247,480 square feet
    Construction time: 2 ½ years
    Completion: March 2001
    Cost: then £86 million
    Design team:
    Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw
    Structural Engineer: Anthony
    Hunt and Associates
    Main Contractor: McAlpine
    Joint Venture
    clayey quarry

    soap bubbles
    Geodesic dome

    A braced dome in which the


    elements forming the network are
    lying on the great circle of a sphere
    Double layer geodesic dome
    HEX-net

    TRI-HEX-net
    NODES & TUBES
    Top chord

    Top chord beams


    - CHS tube diameter of 193.7mm
    - Ends are cut rectangular and fixed to nodes
    Mero NK Bowl Node - High pre-stressed bolts (M27 & M36) used
    to connect beams to bowl nodes
    - Cast iron (GGG40) and - Bolt M16 fix beam in right position &
    galvanized transfer torsional moments
    - Weight about 80kg
    - Diameter of 400mm
    ERECTION METHOD

    STEP 1: Set-up of birdcage scaffolding of 60


    metres high and 125 metres
    ERECTION METHOD
    STEP 2: Hexagons were put together on ground and
    then lifted up by mobile crane and tower cranes on
    STEP 3 Bolting of hexagon structure
    larger domes in the HTB, starting from dome A of HTB
    to dome H of WTB.
    Ethyltetrafluoroethylene

    Movie: Die Another Day

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