Floating building
Floating building
(OP)
I am about to begin working on a project that includes a floating restaurant. We are not going to be designing the flotation structure, but just the structure sitting on it. I am curious what design guides/codes are out there for this type of structure. Also, any ideas on what dynamic loads(from the waves) this type of structure would need to designed by? Thinking I might be able to ignore these loads, but curious what others think.






RE: Floating building
What length of fetch do you have? Salt or fresh water?
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
RE: Floating building
Not sure even without doing something any loading from wave action would control over wind/seismic.
RE: Floating building
RE: Floating building
Your main concern should be wind, not seismic here since it is not attached to the gtound as it were.
I assume there is no current to deal with, so that should not be a problem. Sometimes, as I found out the hard way, the current forces will overide the wind forces. But that's another story for another day.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
RE: Floating building