The authors will describe in the following pages the reasons why the project of the Multi-functional Sports Hall from Cluj Napoca is attractive. The main lines of the building are: a hall with a capacity of 7000 seats, a structure dominated by precast concrete elements, a long span roof and an advanced analyze of the connections, all well-kept into the limited funds. The roof solution consists in using steel space trusses made out of square hollow sections (SHS). The truss has a clear span of 63.90m, a total length of 76,10m, a maximum height of 4,00m that is reduced on the length of the structural element, and a triangular cross section being 3,60m wide. Global stability checks and specific local stability problems were performed and are exposed in the following paper. For the fabrication of the space truss, welded joints between the SHS profiles were designed. As a result of the fact that for characteristic failure checks of the welded TT and KK joints analytical methods are based only on a semi-empirical formulae, developed for Φ=90 degrees (the angle between the diagonal planes), for the design of joints finite element modelling was used. Good agreement between the results of the developed finite element joint model and the analytical method for TT and KK joints has been found, even though the semi-empirical formulae are applied for the analysed truss which had Φ=50 degrees.
The article presents the technical solutions implemented during the design of the roof trusses and the elliptic skylight structure (Figure. 1) for the extension of the "Shopping City Sibiu" commercial centre in Romania. The area of the roof structure was approximately 1600 sqm (29x56 m). In the central region of the roof, a 27 m long and 10 m wide elliptic skylight was placed. The challenges of the project arouse from the relatively large span of the structure, being supported only on 13 non-symmetrically placed perimeter concrete columns. Thus, the structure had to be designed in such a way, that it would support the extra 20 tones coming from the skylight structure, while also bring inside the natural light unobstructed by any main structural elements. The relatively large deformations between the supporting points of the skylight under variable loads (especially snow loads) can also have adverse effects on the glazing surface during operational phase. Due to this, also the serviceability limit state checks had an important role in the engineering calculations. The structural configuration steps with performed analyses on the partial structural models and on the complex 3D model were especially useful for the identification of the sensitive zones, helping to create the surface shape and develop adequate structural details. The paper summarizes the structural engineering challenges during the design and execution process.
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