132 Category 3: Industrial Buildings and Plants 3 New Mixing Installation - Amsterdam, The Netherlands SE Contact Michel Garssen, René van Renswoude Address Galileilaan 36 6716 BP Ede, The Netherlands Website www.snetselaar.nl Konstruktieburo Snetselaar BV is an international, independentlyoperating consultancy for construction. Our activities include the designing, engineering and drawing of architectural and civil constructions of reinforced (prestressed) concrete, steel and wood. With our team of over 20 engineers and draftsman, (registered) engineers and engineering draftsman, we offer a complete engineering and drafting service for building construction (full 3D BIM). Our agency is characterized by the direct link it offers between the client and the engineer. Owner Struyk Verwo Infra Architect UBO Engineering BV General Contractor Nelissen van Gerwen BV Engineering Office Konstruktieburo Snetselaar BV Construction Period 05/2014 - 12/2014 The structure we engineered is a concrete mixing installation inside a building. The structure is designed to withstand the vertical load of the bunkers on top of it. The bunkers weigh approximately 40 t each. This weight puts an extra horizontal load on the structure. For the design of the structure I used an IFC model drawn by one of our draftsman. This simplified the modelling of the structure in SCIA Engineer. When I had connected all the elements, I could start engineering the structure, placing hinges and changing materials. The diagonal beams are non-linear so they can’t take compression forces. The challenge of this project was the complexity of the lattice frameworks underneath the storage units. There are frameworks in both directions with a lot of force on top of them. Another problem we needed to tackle was the stability of the structure. Because of its relatively small base the structure is sensitive to displacements. We solved this by strengthening the connections between the columns and the beams. Company Konstruktieburo Snetselaar BV
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