Tall Building case studies - Tall Buildings: Structural Systems and Aerodynamic Form - page 107

^Nose

column
Hammerhead
shear wall

Perimeter
shear wall
(60cm
in thickness)

Corridor
shear wall
(60cm
in thickness)

Reinforced concrete
core shear wall
(varying in thickness
130-50cm
from bottom to

Reinforced
- concrete
outrigger

top).

-17m

Outrigger application

Floor 19

Figure 4.12

Burj Khalifa plan and structural axonometric

The slab system on each storey consists of two-way reinforced concrete flat plates
that vary between 20 and 30 cm in depth as they pass through spaces of approxi-
mately 9 m between the nose columns, perimeter shear walls and the hexagonal
central core, while on the upper storeys they vary between 22.5 and 25 cm in depth.

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