Dynamic analysis of the BMW tower in Munich

Joaquin Indacochea-Beltran; Pearl Elgindy; Elaine Lee; Thiviya Vignesh; Peter Ansourian; Faham Tahmasebinia; Fernando Alonso Marroquín

doi:10.1063/1.4961100

Dynamic analysis of the BMW tower in Munich

Joaquin Indacochea-Beltran, Pearl Elgindy, Elaine Lee, Thiviya Vignesh, Peter Ansourian, Faham Tahmasebinia, Fernando Alonso Marroquín^*

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Abstract

In the 1970s, world famous Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer designed an avant-garde suspended skyscraper for the new BMW headquarters. The BMW Tower was envisioned to resemble a four-cylinder motor and become a symbol for the recent flourishing success of BMW. Throughout its four decades, the BMW Tower has become the main architectural feature of modern Munich and a pride for one of the World leading car manufacturers. The structural design of the BMW Tower represented a major challenge to Germany's finest engineers because the suspended 99.5m-high structure had to whitstand not only static loading but large wind dynamic loading while having deflections within appropriate serviceability limits. Strand7 has been used to determine the stresses and deflections the structure is subjected to in order to analyse its behavior under static and dynamic loadings. Ultimately, this analysis helps to understand the nature of suspended structures in relation to the Eurocode building standards. Finally, thermal resistance has also been analysed using Strand7 to simulate a fire scenario and analyse the behaviour of the cable structure, which is the most critical building component.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	Dynamics of Structures 2016
Editors	Fernando Alonso-Marroquin
Publisher	American Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9780735414204
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4961100
State	Published - 11 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering: Dynamics of Structures 2016 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 23 May 2016 → 1 Jun 2016

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Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1762
ISSN (Print)	0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)	1551-7616

Conference

Conference	Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering: Dynamics of Structures 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	23/05/16 → 1/06/16

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General Physics and Astronomy

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Indacochea-Beltran, J., Elgindy, P., Lee, E., Vignesh, T., Ansourian, P., Tahmasebinia, F., & Marroquín, F. A. (2016). Dynamic analysis of the BMW tower in Munich. In F. Alonso-Marroquin (Ed.), Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering: Dynamics of Structures 2016 Article 020002 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1762). American Institute of Physics Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4961100

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Dynamic analysis of the BMW tower in Munich. / Indacochea-Beltran, Joaquin; Elgindy, Pearl; Lee, Elaine et al.
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering: Dynamics of Structures 2016. ed. / Fernando Alonso-Marroquin. American Institute of Physics Inc., 2016. 020002 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1762).

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