Soil-Structure Interaction of a High-Rise Building Near Sensitive Structures in Soft Soil Conditions-Video

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The lecture examines soil–structure interaction for a 75-meter Waterfront Hotel planned on a pier in Frankfurt’s East Harbor. Its highly eccentric loads and proximity to historic cables, sheet-pile walls, bridges, and an existing roundabout required detailed finite-element modeling, including construction history and a combined pile-raft foundation. Simulations predict building settlements of 3.2–5.5 cm under characteristic loads, with 88% of the load carried by piles. Serviceability settlements and movements of nearby structures remain within permitted limits. However, the building introduces additional stresses on the historic cables, so their stability requires further analysis.

Keywords

soil-structure interaction

finite-element modeling

pile-raft foundation

building settlement

historic cables