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Thermal Expansion

Thermal Expansion

Thermal Expansion

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Have you had experience with thermal expansion of steel building with length of about 120 meter and about 5 floors. how many bays of bracings is enough? how you deal with big expansion loads?

RE: Thermal Expansion

For a building of that size, I would prefer to use one or two expansion joints; that would create essentially two or three separate structures.

BA

RE: Thermal Expansion

I agree with BA. Thermal volume change creates unstoppable forces.

RE: Thermal Expansion

One of my early mentors told me to brace about every fourth bay in a steel building. I have found that to be solid advice. You can be more aggressive of course. When I choose to be, I just pay more attention to P-Delta, drag strut elongation, diaphragm deflection etc.

I've done a few projects where we had expansion joints present during construction that were locked up once the building was closed in and tempered. I've always been a bit nervous about that philosophy though. If the heat goes off for an extended period for some reason, maybe all hell would break loose.

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