RELEASE-ENGINEERING TEAMS are responsible for building and delivering software to the customer and for enabling its development on an industrial scale. This has always been a tall order. In modern software development, a number of factors make release engineering even more challenging.1 Thankfully, following a handful of established practices2 lets us address these challenges and deliver softwa...

The tall building is the most dominating symbol of the cities and a human made marvel that defies gravity by reaching to clouds. The development of high strength concrete, higher grade steel, new construction techniques and advanced computational technique has resulted in the emergence of a new generation of tall structures that are flexible, low in damping, slender and light in weight. These t...

Current innovative lateral load carrying systems for tall buildings are those in which the lateral drift is limited to an allowable value without considerable influence on economy. This aim is achieved by using special systems capable of using maximum stiffness and strength capacity of individual structural elements. An effective structural solution in this respect is the use of outrigger brace...

This paper deals with the role of the porosity on the aerodynamic behavior of two civil structures: the Spire, a tall slender tower 80.44m high, and the buttresses of a tall building. The Spire is an original architectonic complement. Its covering, made of perforated steel plates, forms and intricate three-dimensional spiral characterized by five different diameters. The buttresses connect the ...

The response of tall buildings has been a major concern in metropolitan cities, especially with the recent surge in extreme activities targeted at structures with viable commercial values. This paper discusses a study carried out on the structural behaviour of a 2D frame, modelled to represent a tall building with ABAQUS. The model frame was subjected to a charge of the equivalent weight of 1 t...

current innovative lateral load carrying systems for tall buildings are those in which the lateral drift is limited to an allowable value without considerable influence on economy. this aim is achieved by using special systems capable of using maximum stiffness and strength capacity of individual structural elements. an effective structural solution in this respect is the use of outrigger brace...

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Current innovative lateral load carrying systems for tall buildings are those in which the lateral drift is limited to an allowable value without considerable influence on economy. This aim is achieved by using special systems capable of using maximum stiffness and strength capacity of individual structural elements. An effective structural solution in this respect is the use of outrigger brace...