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Foundation design for the Pentominium tower in Dubai, UAE

2009; ICE Publishing; Volume: 162; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1680/cien.2009.162.6.25

1751-7672

K. Ibrahim, Grahame Bunce, Catherine Murrells,

Seismic Performance and Analysis

The Pentominium tower in Dubai, UAE will be the tallest residential building in the world at over 100 storeys tall when completed in 2012. This paper describes the design of the tower's piled raft foundation in the local carbonate soils and rock. Geotechnical investigations are outlined, along with how the effect of the proposed tower on neighbouring structures, single-pile response and impact of cyclic degradation were assessed. A description of the numerical analyses used to evaluate the overall piled raft response under various static and wind loading combinations is presented as well as some of the techniques used to optimise the foundation design, including preliminary pile testing.