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Seismic Design and Performance of the FedEx A380 Hangar Facility
The FedEx Airbus A380 Hangar Facility in Memphis, Tennessee is comprised of five steel buildings. The five buildings are an airplane hangar to service the new Airbus A380, storage warehouse, shop infill building, 2-story office building, and a ground support maintenance building (GSE). The owner of this facility is the Federal Express Corporation. The Architect of Record is Ghafari and Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. is the Structural Engineer of Record. This paper will focus on the A380 Hangar structure, which has 400 ft span roof trusses, a building height of 150 feet, a building depth of 330 feet, numerous suspended overhead crane hoists and telescopic platforms, special concentrically braced frames, and concrete drilled pier and grade beam special moment frame foundations. A unique design requirement for this facility in Memphis, Tennessee was the project specific adoption of the International Building Code. The state adopted building code at the start of this project was the Southern Building Code. This adoption of the International Building Code played a large role in the design of this facility due to the dramatic changes in seismic design requirements. The seismicity and soil conditions for the City of Memphis required these structures to be designed and detailed to accommodate all requirements for Seismic Design Category D in accordance with IBC.
Seismic Design and Performance of the FedEx A380 Hangar Facility
The FedEx Airbus A380 Hangar Facility in Memphis, Tennessee is comprised of five steel buildings. The five buildings are an airplane hangar to service the new Airbus A380, storage warehouse, shop infill building, 2-story office building, and a ground support maintenance building (GSE). The owner of this facility is the Federal Express Corporation. The Architect of Record is Ghafari and Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. is the Structural Engineer of Record. This paper will focus on the A380 Hangar structure, which has 400 ft span roof trusses, a building height of 150 feet, a building depth of 330 feet, numerous suspended overhead crane hoists and telescopic platforms, special concentrically braced frames, and concrete drilled pier and grade beam special moment frame foundations. A unique design requirement for this facility in Memphis, Tennessee was the project specific adoption of the International Building Code. The state adopted building code at the start of this project was the Southern Building Code. This adoption of the International Building Code played a large role in the design of this facility due to the dramatic changes in seismic design requirements. The seismicity and soil conditions for the City of Memphis required these structures to be designed and detailed to accommodate all requirements for Seismic Design Category D in accordance with IBC.
Seismic Design and Performance of the FedEx A380 Hangar Facility
Peronto, John L. (author) / Poulos, Thomas D. (author) / Joseph, Leonard Martin (author) / Stadler, Robert (author)
Structures Congress 2008 ; 2008 ; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Structures Congress 2008 ; 1-16
2008-10-14
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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