A building of unlimited height
Paper in proceedings, 2019

We consider the overall buckling under own weight of a thin-walled column of circular cross-section and a radius that is a hyperbolic sine function of distance from the top of the column. The maximum stress is limited to a given value, but there is no limit to the height of the column. The wall thickness is determined by consideration of local buckling. It can be made to represent a building by adjusting the own weight of the column to include the weight of the floors, finishes, cladding and imposed load.

optimization

buckling under own weight

Tallest building

Author

Mats Ander

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Material and Computational Mechanics

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Jens Olsson

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods, Research - Architectural Theory and Method

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Paul Shepherd

University of Bath

Robert Stuart-Smith

University College London (UCL)

University of Pennsylvania

Christopher John Kenneth Williams

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods, Research - Architectural Theory and Method

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IASS 60TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM (IASS SYMPOSIUM 2019) - 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TEXTILE COMPOSITES AND INFLATABLE STRUCTURES (STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES 2019)

1465-1472

60th Anniversary Symposium of the International-Association-for-Shell-and-Spatial-Structures (IASS SYMPOSIUM) / 9th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures (STRUCTURAL MEMBRANES)
Barcelona, Spain,

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Geotechnical Engineering

Building Technologies

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