21.07: Refurbishment of the historical Eiffel‐hall in Budapest

ABSTRACT The 130 years old Eiffel‐hall in Budapest is a single‐story historical steel building which function was a workshop for locomotives till 2009. The hall with a 95×235 m floor area is built up from 20 truss frames having 5 modules for each. In 2016 the change of the function of the hall was r...

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Published in:ce/papers 2017-09, Vol.1 (2-3), p.4550-4559
Main Authors: Pap, Zsuzsa B., Horváth, László., Kövesdi, Balázs
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
historical building
refurbishment
reinforcement methods
steel hall
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Summary:ABSTRACT The 130 years old Eiffel‐hall in Budapest is a single‐story historical steel building which function was a workshop for locomotives till 2009. The hall with a 95×235 m floor area is built up from 20 truss frames having 5 modules for each. In 2016 the change of the function of the hall was requested, and the workshop and rehearsal centrum of the Hungarian State Opera will be placed in the building. Therefore, the hall had to be checked if it satisfies the requirements of the present design codes containing fire and earthquake engineering and the requested safety level had to be proved. The structural system of the historical steel load‐bearing structure is very interesting and showed complex behaviour. Thus, the static and stability check and also the check against fire are made with the help of a finite element model developed in Ansys. To understand the behaviour of the structure GMNI analysis is performed on a more complex shell model. The current paper introduces the static check and reinforcement procedure of this historical building and points out some differences in the safety level and the design strategies nowadays and 130 years ago.
ISSN:2509-7075
2509-7075
DOI:10.1002/cepa.515