Design Concepts of the Pulkovo Airport Main Terminal Roof Structure
| Author(s): |
Shonn Mills
Robert Harrold Stephen Wilson Kevin Hares |
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011 |
| Published in: | IABSE-IASS 2011 London Symposium Report |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: |
The reconstruction and redevelopment of Pulkovo Airport will establish a high profile gateway to the St Petersburg region. The centrepiece of Phase 1 of the redevelopment is a new Main Terminal Building (MTB) which will provide facilities to cater for up to 17 million passengers per year. The key architectural feature of the Main Terminal is its roof. Long span lightweight steel structure is supported by vertical cantilever columns and has a complex faceted soffit which evokes the traditional architecture of St Petersburg. This paper presents the design philosophy for the MTB roof structure and process by which parametric modelling techniques were used to develop and optimise the roof geometry. Generative Components parametric modelling software was used to define a number of geometric parameters which allowed easy manipulation of the roof soffit geometry. The paper also discusses the member restraint philosophy developed for the long span roof trusses, including a comparative study of code-based hand calculation with non-linear and eigenvalue buckling finite element analysis techniques. |
| Keywords: |
airport terminal parametric modelling long-span roof structures Russian design standards high snow loading large thermal movements steelwork design in Russia non-linear buckling analysis
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