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This chapter discusses the fundamentals of tall building design, covering historical context, various loadings, and essential design considerations such as earthquake resistance, wind effects, and fire safety. It emphasizes the importance of foundation design and construction methods, particularly in light of past incidents that highlighted the need for buildings to withstand extreme conditions. Special topics like shortening analysis and cladding systems are also addressed.

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Chapter2 Fundamental

This chapter discusses the fundamentals of tall building design, covering historical context, various loadings, and essential design considerations such as earthquake resistance, wind effects, and fire safety. It emphasizes the importance of foundation design and construction methods, particularly in light of past incidents that highlighted the need for buildings to withstand extreme conditions. Special topics like shortening analysis and cladding systems are also addressed.

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Fundamentals of Tall Building Design

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CHAPTER TWO

Fundamentals of Tall Building


Design
Abstract
In this chapter, the fundamental of tall building design is explained. It starts with the
introduction of the history of the tall buildings. Then it explains different loadings, floor
systems, and vertical support systems. It also has detailed introduction on earthquake-
resistant design, wind design, progressive collapse design, fire safety design, blast
design, and foundation design. They are followed by further description on construction
methods of tall buildings. It also covers special topics on shortening analysis and clad-
ding systems for tall buildings.
Keywords: Earthquake, Fire, Blast, Progressive collapse, Fire, Foundation, Wind, Short-
ening analysis, Cladding

2.1 INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the fundamental design for tall buildings is explained.
In tall building design, the primary considerations are the effect of wind, seis-
mic, and correspondent lateral stability system to resist wind or seismic load-
ing. Owing to the height of the tall buildings, wind-induced vibration
becomes another critical design issue, which affects the occupants’ comfort
level. Therefore, it also needs to be addressed in the design.
Foundation design is also another major consideration. Except that, con-
siderations on gravity loading and correspondent flooring system are also
essential.
After the incidents such as collapse of Twin Towers caused by the hijacked
aircraft crashed into them on September 11, 2001 (NIST NCSTAR, [1]), col-
lapse of building 7 World Trade Center (NIST NCSTAR 1A, [2]) due to fire
set by the debris of Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, and blast-induced
partial collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City,
1995 (ODCM report, [3]), design a tall building to resist extreme loading such
as fire and blast loading has become an increasingly important design task.
How to design a tall building to prevent it from disproportionate collapse
is one of the top priorities for a design engineer.

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