Computer-aided structural analysis and design of the 37-storey Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.12.3.212-222Abstract
The paper briefly describes and summarizes the computed-aided analyses and design for a complex convention hotel structure in Los Angeles. Seismic analyses, upon which structural steel sizing was based, were both static and dynamic. The latter were carried out for two postulated levels of seismic ground motion, and included both response-spectrum and time-history methods.
Columns, column splices and joint details at beam to column connections were designed using a computer program.
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