BLD501: ADVANCED
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY I
TOPIC: LARGE OPEN ROOF SYSTEM
Outline:
- Components/ Elements of a Building and Building System
- Roofing System Defined
- Construction of Roof and its Members
- Functions of Roof Elements in Buildings
- Classification of Roof According to Span
- Forms of Materials Used for Long Span Roof Construction
- Features and Benefits of Materials Used for Large Open Roof
- Forms of Sections of Steel Used for Large Open Roof Span Roof
- Connections of Steel Members for Large Open / Long Span Roof
- Components/ Elements of a Building and Building System:
The following can be considered :
- Foundations
- Floors
- Walls
- Roofs
- Structural Members
- Doors
- Windows
- etc.
- Roofing System in Buildings Defined:
It is the system that serves as the enclosure of the building from
the direct ingress of environmental parameters like rainfall, sunlight
into the inner spaces and also lend aesthetics to its beauty.
- It can be in different forms, shapes, design and with various
materials of construction.
- It also varying levels of complexities
- Construction of Roofing System and its Members:
It is the system that serves as the enclosure of the building from
the direct ingress of environmental parameters like rainfall, sunlight
into the inner spaces and also lends aesthetics to its appealing.
- It can be in different forms, shapes, design and with various
materials of construction.
- It also has varying levels of complexities
- Functions of Roof Elements in Buildings :
- Functional purpose/requirement
- Aesthetical purpose/requirement
- Environmental purpose/requirement
- Structural purpose/requirement
-Dimensional purpose/requirement
- Building performance purpose/requirement
- Classifications of Roof:
- Classification according to Span:
- Short Span and Long Span Classification
- Classification according to Materials of Construction:
- Steel Roof
- Concrete Roof
-Timber Roof etc.
- Classification according to Slope:
- Pitched Roof
- Flat Roof
- Long Span Roof Construction (Materials Used):
- Steel or Concrete (Precast)
- Consideration of the Choice of Materials either Steel/Concrete
Depends Largely on:
- The behaviour of materials of steel/concrete
- Steel has the following Benefits/Merits:
- High strength
- Uniformity in strength distribution
-Near conformity to elastic behaviour
- Permanency in its behaviour/shape
- Can have additions easily by connections
- Steel has the following Demerits:
- Corrosion
- Fire proofing materials because off heat conduction
- Susceptible to buckling
- Sections of Steel Used for Large Open Roof Construction:
- Hot –rolled steel section
- Cold-formed steel section
- Hot –rolled steel sections can be used as:
1- Universal Beam (I-Beam)
2- Universal Column (Shorter than I-Beam);
But the web is than that of the I-Beam
3- Flanges
4- Joists
5- Channels
6- Angles
7- Tees
8- Plates
- Specifications of Universal Beam/ Universal Column::
Specification: Depth x Width x Weight /mRun:
402 x 210 x 85
Flange can be : Parallel Flange or Tapered Flange
- Other Forms of Steel Used for Construction of Large Open Roof:
1- Castellated Beam: achieved by cutting along the web of the beam; and
2- Girders: are deep beams up to 3m deep.
- Connections of Steel Members for Large Open Roof System:
1- Rivetting: by using lapped joint and drilling through the plates
2- Bolting: the use of either: 1- Black bolt (Mild bolt);
2- Friction grip bolt (Strong bolt).
3- Welding connection: which can be either:
1- Direct welding or
2- Indirect welding
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