Steel Buildings in Europe

Part 2: Concept Design 2 - v Contents Page No FOREWORD iii SUMMARY vi 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Hierarchy of design decisions 1 1.2 Architectural design 2 1.3 Choice of building type 6 1.4 Design requirements 9 1.5 Sustainability 12 2 CASE STUDIES ON SINGLE STOREY BUILDINGS 14 2.1 Manufacturing hall, Express Park, UK 14 2.2 Supermarket, Esch, Luxembourg 15 2.3 Motorway Service station, Winchester, UK 16 2.4 Airbus Industrie hanger, Toulouse, France 17 2.5 Industrial hall, Krimpen aan den Ijssel, Netherlands 17 2.6 Distribution Centre and office, Barendrecht, Netherlands 18 3 CONCEPT DESIGN OF PORTAL FRAMES 19 3.1 Pitched roof portal frame 20 3.2 Frame stability 22 3.3 Member stability 23 3.4 Preliminary Design 25 3.5 Connections 27 3.6 Other types of portal frame 29 4 CONCEPT DESIGN OF TRUSS BUILDINGS 35 4.1 Introduction 35 4.2 Truss members 36 4.3 Frame stability 38 4.4 Preliminary design 39 4.5 Rigid frame trusses 40 4.6 Connections 40 5 SIMPLE BEAM STRUCTURES 42 6 BUILT-UP COLUMNS 43 7 CLADDING 45 7.1 Single-skin trapezoidal sheeting 45 7.2 Double-skin system 45 7.3 Standing seam sheeting 47 7.4 Composite or sandwich panels 47 7.5 Fire design of walls 47 8 PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF PORTAL FRAMES 49 8.1 Introduction 49 8.2 Estimation of member sizes 49 REFERENCES 52