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Beneficial Inner-City Quay Walls?
2018 •
Mark de Bruijne
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Kiet Nguyen
Widening a harbor basin, demolition of a deep see quay wall in Rotterdam
The rapid development in containership dimensions creates a huge challenge for ports. But for one port basin in Rotterdam this challenge was too big. The nautical restrictions for the Amazonehaven would start at such moderate conditions that the basin would be closed for Ultra Large Container Ships (ULCS) about a 100 days a year. As this basin contains more than 60 percent of the deep sea quay length at ECT, Europe’s largest container terminal, the Port of Rotterdam Authority decided to widen the basin by demolishing the opposite iron ore bulk quay wall. In this way vessels up to 18.000 TEU have access up to 6 Beaufort wind speed. This quay wall, with a length of 950 meters and a retaining height of 32 meters, was con-structed between 1988 and 1990 with an inclined steel combi wall, concrete pre stressed bear-ing piles, MV piles and a massive concrete superstructure. It is the first ever demolished quay wall on this scale in Rotterdam and, as far as the authors know, even globally. ...
Stability Analysis Quay Wall at The Amazonehaven, Port of Rotterdam
2017 •
henk brassinga
The stability of any structure is an important aspect in civil engineering. This aspect is the subject of the researched quay wall at the Amazonehaven, port of Rotterdam. The quay wall with a relieving platform structure had in various section, over the entire 900m length of the quay, large deformations at the toe of the combined wall. The purpose was to analyse and quantify the influence of the deformed combined wall on the stability of the quay wall, its service lifetime. To obtain a better insight into the concept of stability, analytical methods based on the Blum theory, beam on elastic foundation method and finite element method using Plaxis 3D were applied and compared. The finite element method, Plaxis 3D, proved to be a better method to investigate the quay wall. Plaxis 3D takes into account the 3-dimensional effects of the quay wall and considers the actual soil behaviour during calculation which is a sophisticated manner of modelling a quay wall. A calibration model (which...
Research into the causes of the measured displacements of a quay wall
2011 •
J. de Gijt
In this paper, an investigation into the causes of measured deformations of a quay wall in the Port of Rotterdam is described. Measurements show that horizontal displacements of the combi wall in seaward direction, increasing nonlinearly in time. This trend was the reason for an investigation into all possible causes of the horizontal displacements on top of the quay wall. The main part of the investigation was elaborated by considering the different influences for a representative cross section by simulating the real soil behaviour with analytical and numerical methods. Examples of effects that have been analysed are time dependent soil behaviour, anchor wall capacity, the influence of expected values in stead of a design philosophy, the influence of the position and magnitude of a surcharge load and accumulating effects of cyclic loading.
Amsterdam hidden wall:particularity of architecture in the urban cultural landscape
2008 •
Hyukjin Kang
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Belgian Wall Tiles From Avant-Garde to Mass Production : Les rajoles belgues per a revestiment de parets. De l’avantguarda a la produccio en massa
2021 •
Mario Baeck
The Metaphor of ''Curtain Wall'' in the Modern Architectural Discourse
Pınar Kutluay
‘‘Curtain wall’’ is mostly regarded as a direct outcome of the industrial reform in the Nineteenth Century. Following technological determinist approach, most of the studies about curtain wall seek to find an origin for it in the late Nineteenth Century. Different from these studies, this thesis investigates the formation of the discourse of curtain wall in view of its metaphoric background. Instead of focusing only on technology as the main factor, the study unveils different sides of the discourse which remained in the background and deciphers how ‘‘curtain,’’ a term borrowed from textile and theatre, has been associated with facade of frame structure. In detail, the study sheds light on how frame structure, one of the main components of a curtain wall system, came to be called as ‘‘skeleton’’ with reference to the theory of organicism. The dressing—Bekleidung—theory of Gottfried Semper is also examined as an alternative interpretation of the relationship between structure and facade regarding monumentalization through dressing and masking; as skeleton structure led architects to reconsider wall with concern of representation. Furthermore, the study concentrates on the architectural environment of Chicago in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, exploring two mainly different interpretations of frame structure which both arose from a shared concern of representation by some significant architects, including Louis H. Sullivan, who was also interested in monumentalization through ornament. This thesis claims that curtain wall is a metaphor invented to reconcile the emerging technology with the theory of representation which had diverse sides.
Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2017
Crown Walls in Mass and Reinforced Concrete: The Way to Aesthetics in Maritime Works
2018 •
José Santos López-Gutiérrez
Comparison of quay wall designs in concrete, steel, woord and composites with regard to the co2-emission and the life cycle analysis
2011 •
J. de Gijt
In this paper quay wall designs in different materials are compared with regard to the CO2-emission and the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). For this study the requirements and boundary conditions of the quay wall in the Euromax Terminal, the Port of Rotterdam, have been used. An overview of preliminary designs of the tender phase with a concrete diaphragm wall and a steel combi wall are presented. Due to the absence of designs in wood and composites, new designs have been proposed for these materials. The designs resulted in a retaining wall of Azobe and a sandwich panel of Fiber Reinforced Polymers. For these four designs a cost estimation is made. Next the CO2-emission during the lifetime of these structures is calculated. In addition several other impact categories have been determined with help of an LCA. They are causing emissions, resulting in pollution to air, water and soil, depletion and land use. With help of the so called “shadow prices” the costs for the preventive measures t...
