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Structural Details of Burj Khalifa

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world's tallest building at 828 meters tall. It took 6 years to construct using 25,000 cubic meters of concrete, 83,600 square meters of glass, and 27,900 square meters of metal for its curtain walls. The central core and winged design helped reduce wind loads on the increasingly narrow upper sections of the tower. Its Y-shaped floor plan maximizes views and wind resistance through a series of setbacks and a central reinforced concrete core buttressed by wings around the perimeter.

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Structural Details of Burj Khalifa

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world's tallest building at 828 meters tall. It took 6 years to construct using 25,000 cubic meters of concrete, 83,600 square meters of glass, and 27,900 square meters of metal for its curtain walls. The central core and winged design helped reduce wind loads on the increasingly narrow upper sections of the tower. Its Y-shaped floor plan maximizes views and wind resistance through a series of setbacks and a central reinforced concrete core buttressed by wings around the perimeter.

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STRUCTURAL DETAILS OF BURJ KHALIFA

The world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa took 6 years for its construction and was
inaugurated on the 4th of January 2010. The structure is 828m tall and the whole system is a
reinforced concrete tower structure.
The tower’s overall design was inspired by the geometries of a regional desert flower and the
patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture. Built of reinforced concrete and clad in
glass, the tower is composed of sculpted volumes arranged around a central buttressed core.
As the tower rises from a flat base, setbacks occur in an upward spiralling pattern, reducing
the building’s mass as it reaches skyward. At the pinnacle, the central core emerges and
forms a spire.
The structure located in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates 160+ story tower with an adjacent
Podium structure, a Six story office and a two-story pool facility.
The tower has a total area of 280000 m2. It is utilized for 700 residential apartments located
from 45 to 108 floors. Remaining space till the 160th floor is occupied by corporate offices.
The total cost is estimated to be US$20 billion. The tower construction itself costs $4.2
billion. 25000 cubic metre of concrete, 83600 sqm of glass and 27900 sq.m of metal for thw
curtain walls, 39000 tons of steel rebars and well over 22 million-man hours went into this
jaw dropping structure.
Adrian Smith, an American architect, is the man behind the structural and architectural design
of the Burj Khalifa. The basic structure is a central hexagon core with three wings which are
clustered around it.
While moving up along the tower one wing at each tier is set back. This makes decreasing
cross section when moving up. The structure consists of 26 tones.
The Burj Khalifa employs a Y shaped floor plan. This plan provides higher performance and
provides a full view of the Persian Gulf. The shape and the upward setbacks help the
structure to reduce the wind forces that is acting on the structure. The shape was finally fixed
based on the series of wind tunnel tests.
The whole system is constructed by using high a performance concrete wall. Each wing
buttresses the other through a hexagonal central core. The central core has a higher resistance
towards the torsional stress. Unlike other structures the design of the Burj Khalifa needs to
have more emphasis on wind forces and related effects. There are corridor walls that extend
form the core to the end of the wings. At the end, these walls are thickened by means of
hammer walls. These walls resist the wind shears and moments by acting like the web and the
flanges of beams. There are perimeter columns that are connected to the mechanical floors by
means of outrigger walls. This helps to resist higher wind loads laterally. The outrigger depth
is three story high.
The high-performance concrete USED IN Burj Khalifa guarantee low permeability and high
durability. The C80 and C60 cube strength concrete is used incorporating FLYASH, Portland
cement and local aggregates. Youngs modulus of 43800N/mm2 is said to be guaranteed by
C80 concrete. As the temperature of location (Dubai) is very high, there were chances of
cracks due to shrinkage. So, the concrete pouring process was carried out at night at a cooler
temperature.
The superstructure of Burj Khalifa is supported over a large reinforced concrete raft. This raft
is in turn supported by bored reinforced concrete piles. The raft has a thickness of 3.7 m and
was constructed in four separate pours.
The number of piles used were 194. The piles were 1.5m in diameter and have a length 43m.
each pile has a capacity of 3000tonnes.The concrete grade used in piles were C60 SCC
concrete which were placed by tremie method. This utilized polymer slurry to carry out the
process. To reduce the detrimental effects of chemicals, cathodic protection was provided
under the raft.
The Burj Khalifa also incorporates new structural and construction efficiencies to reduce
material usage and waste. These include a “sky-sourced” ventilation system, in which cool,
less humid air is drawn in through the top of the building. The tower also has one of the
largest condensate recovery systems in the world.

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