The Las Vegas High Roller: the world's largest observation wheel
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Détails bibliographiques
| Auteur(s): |
Rob Smith
Adrian Crowther |
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| Médium: | papier de conférence | ||||
| Langue(s): | anglais | ||||
| Conférence: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Publié dans: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2357-2364 | ||||
| Nombre total de pages (du PDF): | 8 | ||||
| Année: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814069002 | ||||
| Abstrait: |
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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| Mots-clé: |
Structures tendues câbles
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