The 277 m high Baku Tower in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is the tallest building in the Caucasus ever built. The tower is constantly subjected to enormous wind loads, that gave the city's name it's meaning “city of wind”. To cope with these wind loads a 400 t pendulum damper was installed on the tower's uppermost platform. Its special feature: in case of strong wind and earthquake, the 400 t mass block moves horizontally by up to 1.3 m in all directions in a controlled manner. This pendulum damper reduces the strain on the structure, thus it ensures the building's living and working comfort. The mass block consists of a massive steel box that was filled with concrete on site. MAURER not only manufactured the steel construction but also supervised the entire assembly and put the vibration damper into operation. (© Maurer SE)

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The fabrication of constructional steelwork with manual or automated welding takes place in a controlled and safe environment.
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For Schorgast Bridge Full Locked Coil Rope high strength tension components have been designed and implemented as stay cables. As part of the revision of EN 1993-1-11 the fatigue design rules for tension components have been modified and adjusted. An article in this edition provides insight and background information (Annan, R. et al., pp. 61-75) © FATZER AG

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In 2002, construction work for the largest combined railroad/road bridge in India started. The Bogibeel Bridge owes its name to a secluded village in the tri-border region of India, Myanmar, and the PR China, where the Brahmaputra leaves the Himalaya. MAURER supplied 164 spherical bearings to be placed between the bridge deck and the piers. The bearing specialists from Munich were awarded the contract because they succeeded in designing bearings capable of transmitting the extreme structural loads of 2,800 t, yet fitting into the confined space on the piers. (© MAURER SE)

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MOCAPE in Shenzhen/China, housing the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Planning Exhibition (PE) is a vast building consisting of many long-span structural elements. The transparent façade highlights the main entrance and circulation zone between the two buildings and allows unobstructed views between the inside and outside. The open, column-free exhibition areas with heights from 6 to 17 m also strengthen the impression of a generous design concept.
(Foto © Duccio Malagamba. Paper: Ruppert et al., S. 98)

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The Gustave Eiffel Pavilion and the Ferrié Pavilion complete with a museum as well as an information and service area were each reconstructed between two pillars. In the case of the already existing 58 Tour Eiffel restaurant the glass facade was brought in line with those present in the other two pavilions. Glass surfaces facing inside and outside, a 130 m2 glass floor, which opens up a view of the Champ-de-Mars below. In order to meet the energy requirements, the Strasbourg-based façade builder, HEFI, opted for insulating glass elements, using Super Spacer® TriSealTM Premium Plus by Edgetech Europe GmbH as the spacer. (© L. Herbrecht)

Torre Diamante in the heart of Milano is with 130 m the tallest steel building in Italy. The use of high strength steel sections enables a low total weight, advantageous costs, less transport, slender columns and a preferred raft foundation. With long span composite floor beams flexible column-free offices and integrated building services can be realised. For the LEED certification the recycling-material steel played a major role. (Foto: Bernhard Hauke)

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The Kazakh pavilion was the heart of the EXPO 2017 in Astana. The ball-shaped construction of steel and glass with a diameter of 80 m had to be designed in a very short time and erected at temperatures as low as -40°C. In the upper part, there are two wind turbines, which contribute to the sustainable energy supply of the pavilion. (Copyright: Andreas Keller, Altdorf, see p. 125)

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Yohanes Ingkiriwang and Harry Far: Numerical investigation of the design of single-span steel portal frames using the effective length and direct analysis methods
Hussein Haydar, Harry Far and Ali Saleh: Portal steel trusses vs. portal steel frames for long-span industrial buildings
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Pierre-Olivier Martin, Tien Minh Nguyen and Laurence Davaine: Effect of the torsional stiffness of closed section stiffeners on plate buckling in Eurocode 3 Part 1-5
Maciej Chrzanowski, Christoph Odenbreit, Renata Obiala, Teodora Bogda, Hervé Degée: Shear stresses analysis at the steel-concrete interface. Experimental tests and FE numerical model.
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More than 2 million people pass through the Värtahamnen, Silja Line's ferry passenger terminal in Stockholm each year. As Ruukki designed and delivered the steel structures for the terminal, the prominent building is a good reference for the company and has recently been awarded a commendation from the Swedish Institute of Steel Construction. Every other year, the Institute gives an award for a structure where steel has been used innovatively and in an architecturally interesting way in the load-bearing structure of a building, which has been completed in an environmentally sustainable way. (© Ruukki)

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Stefanie Weidner and Walter Haase: The Implementation of an Adaptive High-rise Building
Bill Baker: The Design of Structural “Spider” Webs
Roland Bechmann, Stephen Hagenmayer and Thomas Winterstetter: Efficiency and Beauty - Steel Structures by Werner Sobek
Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger: In Dialogue
Stephan Engelsmann and Stephan Peters: Emblematic steel roof structures for central bus stations in Baden-Württemberg / Germany
Walter Grasmug and Lucio Blandini: The Role of Steel in Innovative Building Skins

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