09/03/2026
The world's tallest building is roughly 20 times the height of the first one. Columns had very little to do with it. ๐ก
It's ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐ธ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐, so a bit of perspective. Chicago, 1885: the Home Insurance Building, widely regarded as the first skyscraper, rose 42 m and gravity governed the design. Dubai, today: Burj Khalifa reaches 828 m, and what governs is wind, together with the way the structure responds to it. Same discipline, a completely different problem.
Solving it means having flow and dynamics in one environment. That is what we build for.
๐ช๏ธ 3: a digital wind tunnel for the actual building geometry. Terrain, surrounding buildings, steady state or transient flow, and surface pressures that transfer directly into the structural model as wind load cases instead of being approximated from a code table.
๐ฉ 6: everything that happens after the wind arrives. Natural frequencies and mode shapes, response spectrum and time history analysis for seismic regions, stability and second order effects, and the design checks for steel, concrete or composite in the same model.
One workflow, from the flow field to the mode shape to the code check.
๐ Free trial in the first comment.
ยฉ Diagrid model based on research by Alessandro Giorgio Arcasensa, Prof. Felice Carlo Ponzo, Prof. Elena Mele, Ing. Rocco Ditommaso and Ing. Gianluca Auletta.
