The Las Vegas High Roller: the world's largest observation wheel
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Bibliographic Details
Author(s): |
Rob Smith
Adrian Crowther |
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Medium: | conference paper | ||||
Language(s): | English | ||||
Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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Page(s): | 2357-2364 | ||||
Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
Year: | 2014 | ||||
DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814069002 | ||||
Abstract: |
The Vegas High Roller is the world’s tallest observation wheel, with a maximum height above ground of 167,6m. It also is the largest, based upon passenger numbers, being able to carry 28 cabins of 40 people – 1120 in total. The paper describes the structural design features, the drivers for the design and the analysis performed by the structural engineering team. The paper should be read with the companion papers [1] and [2] |
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Keywords: |
tension structures ropes cables structural steel special structures Observation Wheel
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