STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF

BURJ KHALIFA BIN ZAYED

(BURJ DUBAI)

PRESENTED BY : DEEPA SHARMA

SCH. NO. 10110047

CONCEPT STUDY
Design of Burj Khalifa is based
on upward-spiral Islamic
architecture style of six spokes
of Hymenocallis desert flower.
Designed by: Skidmore,
Owings, & Merrill

STRUCTURAL SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

The
280000reinforced concrete multi-use tower is

utilized for retail, a Giorgio Armani Hotel, residential

and office.
Y shaped plan(Total area = 45,000 cubic metres) to
reduce the wind forces on the tower, as well as to
keep the structure simple and foster constructability.
Buttressed core.
Each wing, with its own high performance concrete
corridor walls and perimeter columns, buttresses the
others via hexagonal hub. The result is a tower that
is extremely stiff laterally and torsionally.

 The setbacks are

organized such that the
towers width changes at
each setback to confuse
the wind. The wind
vortexes never get
organized because at
each new tier the wind
encounters a different
building shape.
Building is rotated to 120
degrees from its original
layout to reduce stress
from prevailing winds.

SPIRE
The top section of the tower consists of a
structural steel spire utilizing a diagonally braced
lateral system. The structural steel(4,oootones)
spire was designed for gravity, wind, seismic and
fatigue.
At its tallest point, the tower sways a total of
1.25m.

MATERIALS
High density, low permeability concrete used in
the foundations
More than 4,000 tones of structural steel.
Exterior cladding of consists of 142,000 m2of
reflectiveglazing.
Aluminium and texturedstainless
steelspandrelpanels

FOUNDATIONS AND SITE CONDITIONS

The tower foundations consist of a pile-supported raft. The
solid reinforced concrete raft is 3.7 m thick and used selfconsolidating concrete (SCC).
The raft was constructed in four separate pours (three wings
and the center core).
Reinforcement was typically at 300 mm spacing in the raft.

LAYING OF FOUNDATION
The tower raft is supported by 194 reinforcing rods or piles ,
1.5 m in diameter and 43 m long, with a design capacity of
3000 tones each.
Then, rods are covered with 3.7 m thick base frame to hold
500,000 ton building.
Piles and raft foundations were designed according to
durability. The chloride and sulfate concentrations found in
the groundwater are even higher than the concentrations in
sea water.

PROCESS

SAFETY OF BUILDING
On the top of base, high strength concrete is applied to
preserve stability and safety of 160 floor building. On 600
m high, residents wont feel a thing against earthquake
(mag. 6.0) and strong wind (speed 55 m)
To prevent from 60 cm contraction caused by load of
building, each floor is revised and built accurately.

CONSTRUCTION(3 DAYS CYCLE)

ThetowerwasconstructedbyaSouthKoreancompany
TheprimarystructuralsystemofBurjKhalifais
reinforcedconcrete.Over45,000m3(58,900cuyd)of
concrete,weighingmorethan110,000tonnes(120,000
ST;110,000LT)wereusedtoconstructtheconcreteand
steelfoundation
Doublereinforcementismovedsafely
fromtopwhichsavesalotoftime

Firstday

Woodenframesarecarefullyinstalled
rigidlytoholdandcoverdouble
reinforcement

Secondday
Highstrengthconcreteispumped
fromgroundusingadvancedhigh
pressureconcretepumping
technology.AutoClimbingSystem
allowstoproceedtonextlevel.

Thirdday

WIND ENGINEERING

The Burj Khalifa is specially

designed to conquer the
wind, a goal that becomes
more and more important as
altitude increases.
Its designprevents it from
forming organized whirlpools
of air current, or vortices,
that would even damage the
building.

4evacuationroomsin
caseofemergency(1in
every30floors)suchas
fireorterrorism.

High-techelevatorscanoperate
safelyevenifbuildingcatches
fire
700sensors
placedon
buildingframes
forlive
monitoring
during
construction

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