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Bucharest Tower Center Case Study

The document describes a 106.3m tall office tower in Bucharest with a dual steel frame structure consisting of rigid frames and braced frames. To increase lateral stiffness against wind and earthquakes, it uses outrigger and belt truss systems at the top and mid-heights. The structural system includes partially encased composite steel columns, steel beams, and X-shaped bracing members. High-strength bolted connections were used to allow for easy assembly and quality control during construction from March to November 2006.

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Bucharest Tower Center Case Study

The document describes a 106.3m tall office tower in Bucharest with a dual steel frame structure consisting of rigid frames and braced frames. To increase lateral stiffness against wind and earthquakes, it uses outrigger and belt truss systems at the top and mid-heights. The structural system includes partially encased composite steel columns, steel beams, and X-shaped bracing members. High-strength bolted connections were used to allow for easy assembly and quality control during construction from March to November 2006.

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CASE STUDY :

TOWER
CENTER
INTERNATIONA
L BUCHAREST 
• Plan :25,5m x 41.5m
• Span :7.5m
• Bay: 7.5m
• Storey height :4.0m

BUILDING
• Total height :106.3m
• Foundations: Mat foundations + piles, “Top-down”
method
MAIN DATA  • Main structure :Partially encased steel columns, steel
beams and bracings, composite slabs
• Location :The building neighbours the city centre of
Bucharest
• Erection: March - November 2006
• Completion May, 2007
Description of the
frame system
• Dual frame structure, (rigid frames +
centrically brace frames)  In order to
increase the lateral stiffness against
wind and earthquake actions, outrigger
and truss systems at top and mid
height)
Outrigger and belt truss system:
• Outrigger system – main core connected
to the exterior columns by stiff horizontal
Description members
• Belt truss – trusses around the structure
of the at the level of outrigger
structural
system Main benefits
• Increase the lateral stiffness
• Improve global behavior under seismic
motion
• Improve robustness against unexpected
progressive collapse
Columns
• Cruciform cross sections columns from hot
rolled profiles
• MRF bays: cross section columns of
800x800mm
• CBF bays: cross section columns of
1000x500mm
• Columns were partially encased in reinforced
concrete S355 steel
•Beams 

• IPE 450 to IPE 550 hot rolled profiles for regular beams
•  HEB 800 profiles for link beams, beams connected to inverted V braces 
• IPE O 300 – secondary beams 
•  Composite action of beams and concrete slab - headed stud connectors S355 steel 
Braces
• Centric X braces made of hot rolled
profiles
• X-braces - sections varying from HEB
450 (bottom) to HEA 340 (top)
• V braces - sections varying from
HEM 450 (bottom) to HEB 400 (top)
• Lower yield steel grade S235
Connections
• High-strength bolted connections
• easy assembly good quality control

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