ABSTRACT
Radical Concrete Technology. Edited by R K Dhir and P C Hewlett. Published in 1996 by E & FN Spon, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK. ISBN 0 419 21480 1. ABSTRACT. In this report, the concept of concrete floating airport and its practical design criteria will be investigated. Main emphasis will be also in the analytical model of floating structure of which structural oscillation is affected by the wave characteristics as elastic panel and is considered to give affects on the structural dimensioning quite extensively. While usual analytical method treats the floating body as a rigid one, the influences of rigidity to displacement and bending moment are very large. Treating it as elastic panel, this method can tell more details of the structure and lead us to more reasonable design. Keywords: Concrete Floating Airport, Wave Characteristics, Structural Oscillation, Influences of Rigidity, Elastic Panel Mr Yoshikatsu Amano is a Graduate Student of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. His main resarch is the analysis of very large floating structures using Finite Element Method. Mr Tetsuo Kawamura is a General Manager of Technical Department, P.S. Corporation, Osaka Branch. He has taken part in construction of a lot of pre-stressed concrete structures. Dr Tada-aki Tanabe is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. His main research is directed to the dynamic failure mechanism of RC structures besides the thermal stress. He is the chairman of JCI Committee on the Thermal Stress of Massive Concrete Structures besides a member of various committees of JSCE, JCI and ACI.
