concrete rib dome calculations engineer
concrete rib dome calculations engineer
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I need some help from a civil engineer on a concrete rib dome building I want to build. This is too complicated for the people I've contacted locally. I could use some pointers just to make sure the design isn't crazy. I could use some advice on how to hire someone to help me. thanks.






RE: concrete rib dome calculations engineer
Then, for the work itself, it is not as difficult as it may seem it one doesn't go for unrealistically thin thicknesses. But the structural designer will put these things in order.
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... if one doesn't go...
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I expected to have this problem, makes innovation a challenge doesn't it? Apparantly in rural Texas you can build anything you want, not so in California.
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to design this building without some higher-end engineering effort. The folks who do engineering assessments for houses aren't going to do as detailed of an assessment as is necessary.
Perhaps you could find an angel investor to fund the effort and you could fund the development and marketing in that way.
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Steel would probably be cheaper as a rib structure.
One key is this will be made using lightweight concrete, which provides the insulation needed. So basically the entire structure is made of a single simple low-cost material.
The ribs essentially provide the base structure, and then the forms to complete the dome.
It seems many work on designs to build structures FASTER, which usually also means cheaper. My design is to build it SLOWER, which in effect is like using leverage, a longer build time with less immediate effort, and less man, material and equipment at once.
I primarly want to build this one house for myself, but certainly it can be easily duplicated once the full engineering specs are done. In particular, one could prefab the ribs and deliver them onsight and have just the fill done locally, like some prefab home business do for other types of homes, e.g. deltec
I just might try to contact a local bazillionaire developer and he can fund the engineering costs and do prefab, he invests in lots of startups, a friend used to work for one of them.
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Only a single mold is needed all the ribs are the same for a dome.
Once again, this is done slowly. Doing 75 ribs one a day takes almost 3 months! But by the time the last one is done, they have aged and hardened, which is needed anyway.
I can figure out all the calculations, buy if I must pay for
an engineers approval, they will have to do their own anyway.
The static load is not complicated, but I must account for Earthquakes
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