MINOR
PROJECT
STRUCTURAL
SYSTEM:
CABLE
STRUCTURE
SUBMITTED TO – AR. SMRITI
RASTOGI
BY- ALISHA ALAM
[Link] 4TH SEM
A8304021008
INTRODUCTION:
❑ Cables structures have been used as wide span roof structures due to their
various advantages such as high strength, light weight, design flexibility, cost-
effective construction and innovative forms.
❑ They have application in a variety of wide span structures like exhibition halls,
stadiums, sports halls, swimming pools, warehouses, factories and hangers.
Cables are flexible tension members that consist of one or more groups of steel
wires, strands or ropes. The tensile strength of the wires of the cable exceeds
1570 MPa and the 0.2 % proof stress is over 1180 MPa.
Cable-supported structures can be sorted into two categories:
Cable-supported roof structures Cable-stayed roof structures
Cable suspended structures, where draped cables are the main supporting
elements of the structure and their curvature is a major factor in the load-carrying
capacity of the system;
a) Raleigh Arena, USA, 1953 (b) Dulles Airport, Washington, USA, 1963 (c) Paper mill, Mantua, Italy
Cable-stayed structures in which cables are tension members fixed inclined to
masts or pylons acting as compression members and where cables are straight with
small amount of sag due to cables own weight .
(a) Ratner Athletics Center, Chicago (b) Millennium dome, UK, 2000 c) City Of Manchester Stadium, Manchester
Cables systems are widely applied in bridges, but cable supported system is
a relatively new form of roof construction.
LOAD BEARING MECHANISM IN CABLE STRUCTURE:
CASE STUDY
MILLENNIUM DOME
• INTRODUCTION
➢ ARCHITECT – RICHARD ROGERS ,
MIKE DAVIES
➢ YEAR - 1996-1999
➢ AREA – 80000 SQ. MT.
➢ PLACE – LONDON , UK
DESIGN
OVERVIEW The ultimate inspiration for the Dome was a great sky, a
cosmos under which all events take place – the radial
The design of the dome features a circle of lines and circles of the high-tensile roof structure recall
twelve steel masts, one hundred meters the celestial reference grid of astronomical maps
high, which support a network of high- throughout the ages
tensile cables. The seventy kilometers of
cabling is covered by a canopy of white
PTFE fabric just one millimeter thin, with an
interior lining to absorb both sound and
condensation. The Dome’s specifications
are astonishing: it has a circumference of
one kilometer, a height of fifty meters at its
peak, and covers an area of eighty
thousand square meters.
CONCEPT
The installation was initially conceived as a
complex of 12 separate pavilions surrounding an CONSTRUCTION
open arena, but with the exposed nature of the Assembled on site from 1,600 tonnes of steel sections, the masts
site and the fact that the experience was to were erected in October of 1997 and the cable net constructed
continue throughout the year, RSHP proposed a and skin attached during the first quarter of 1998.
single ‘umbrella’ enclosing the whole exhibition The fabric skin was connected to tension cables by a team of
abseiling construction workers and, at the height of the project,
site, with several pavilions (or zones) contained shortly before completion, there were over 1,500 people on site.
within it.
FEATURES OF
BUILDINGS
A SERVICE TOWER IS REFLECTED IN
THE WATER OF THE PEBBLE BASED
REED BEDS
PYRAMID WHICH SUPPORT
THE YELLOW MASTS
INNER DOME
THE STAINLESS STEEL PIPE OF
CATERING VENTS PENETRATE THE
ROOF FRAMED BY TWO OF
TWELVE YELLOW SUPPORT
MASTS
VISITORS AT THE CABLE CONNECTED BY
MILLENNIUM DOME GALVANISED AND
FABRICATED BRACKETS
MILLENIUM DOME