Structural Design of Al- Jama’a Tower in Jenin–Palestine
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2022
Authors
Abdalla Dashoun
Amal Zakaria Ammar
Mays Hamdan
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Abstract
A tower is chosen to be designed in a city of Jenin where buildings are mostly 20 m high , to
introduce this type of structure to our community.
Many important aspects will be covered in the project, such as project description, hypothesis Goals and objectives, main assumptions and proof of results.
Moreover, designing a tower is a challenge, the plans need to be fully understood, which
contain a lot of details, and all loads shall be accounted for. The goal is to provide a safe and
economical design of all structural elements.
The tower was built on the southern side of Jenin city. It consists of nine floors with a total
area of more than 12,000 m2
and is used for different uses. It contains underground floors for
parking, two commercial floors and residential floors.
The project was implemented in two parts, in the first part, the following issues were
implemented: reading architectural planes , estimating the different types of loads the
structure is subjected to, assuming the initial dimensions of the structural elements, and
modeling the modern structure Computer programs such as ETABS and SAP2000 are based
on the latest updated global structural codes , such as ASCE7-10, ACI 318-14, etc.
The second part includes the design of the structural elements of slabs, beams, columns
and walls, in addition to the design of the footing using SAFE2020 .
At the end of this project, all structural elements were designed based on the specifications
of the mentioned codes.