BY AHMAD ALSHAKARGI AND YASEEN EL-GERWI
Introduction
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World tallest hotel (1053 ft)
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Most luxuries hotel (seven stars)
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28 double height floor (23 ft height)
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Built on private island
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Became a symbol for Dubai
Architect
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Designed by Tom Wills-Wright
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Needed unique design (simple)
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Shaped like a sail (sign of tourism)
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Rise out of the water
Engineering aspects
 The Island
 Foundation
 Steel Trusses
 Electric Load
The Island
Man Made
 280 Meters offshore
 7.5 Meters high
 Shaped like Triangle
 November 1995
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Foundation
Not connected to bed rock
 Sand
 Skin Friction
 250 Foundation piles
 40 meters deep
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Trusses
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Protect from wind and earthquake
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Building and transporting trusses
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Lifting trusses
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Steel expand problem
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Design special fixing
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Idea of engine camshaft
Electric Load
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8 kw for suite (8 times European suite)
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52,000 lights, 3,106 miles cables, advance service
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Huge load cause harmonic distortion
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Cause melting in cable (burn entire building)
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Electric engineer design harmonic filter
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Detect distortion and cancel it
References
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Burj Al Arab (2006) Wikipedia®. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_al_arab
Dubai's dream palace Burj Al Arab Documentary (May 19,
2012). [video file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l2LhpyJfkg
Hammond Richard (Feb 10, 2012). Richard Hammond's
Engineering Connections - (S03E01)
Burj Al Arab
[video file]. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dXsr0WfxQ
Pourabedain Ehsan (Feb 23, 2008) Burj Al Arab Construction.
SlideShare Inc. Retrieved fro
http://www.slideshare.net/persiankingdom/burj-al-arab
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Alshakargi Abdulilah, personal communication, Nov 18, 2012
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