A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Novel roof designed for 20,000 seat stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, embodies concave surface and requires no columns, buttressing or construction forms; roof is supported on 256 cables anchored at their outer ends to compression-ring cornice which tops cylindrical wall, and at their inner ends to steel ring at center of stadium; roof itself is of precast concrete slabs 2 in. thick.
Novel roof designed for 20,000 seat stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, embodies concave surface and requires no columns, buttressing or construction forms; roof is supported on 256 cables anchored at their outer ends to compression-ring cornice which tops cylindrical wall, and at their inner ends to steel ring at center of stadium; roof itself is of precast concrete slabs 2 in. thick.
Cable-supported roof cuts cost
Civ Eng (NY)
Schupack, M. (author)
Civil Engineering ; 28
1958
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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