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Steel Structure Design Considerations for Port Storage Silo Construction at Pointe-Noire, Central Africa: Building Along the Tropical Coastline

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The port of Pointe-Noire in the Central African Republic, situated on the Atlantic coast, serves as the nation's vital economic gateway. The region experiences a typical tropical maritime climate characterised by year-round high temperatures and humidity, abundant rainfall, and strong sea breezes. As a port area, the terrain is generally flat, though it may encounter issues with foundation bearing capacity and tidal influences. Pointe-Noire Given these climatic and topographical characteristics, the following preliminary steel structure design proposal aims to provide guidance for constructing storage warehouses at Black Point Port.   Why choose steel structures ? In environments such as Black Point Port, steel-framed storage warehouses offer distinct advantages: Efficient construction: Steel components can be prefabricated off-site and rapidly assembled on-site, significantly reducing the construction timeline. For port projects, this translates to faster operational readiness an...

Application of space frames to hangars

To date, space frame structures have been widely used in China, with application scenarios including but not limited to: industrial plants, coal storage structures, hangars, airport terminals, high speed rail stations and large stadiums.

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Hangars require a large span and space sufficient for aircraft parking, but also a certain load-bearing capacity to withstand the loads brought by the equipment during aircraft maintenance. In order to increase the load-bearing capacity, the construction of hangar structures has been accompanied by improvements and innovations to the traditional two-storey space frame structure. For example, the four-bay hangar at Beijing Capital Airport, built in 1996, has a three-storey space frame structure with dimensions of (153+153)m × 90 m. The hangar of China Southern Airlines at Beijing Daxing International Airport, built in 2019, has a W-shaped truss + space frame structure system with a span of 222 m at the opening side of the gate.

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