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New Gun Machine Shop, Ishapore, West Bengal, India (703)

  • TaskResponsibilities: Structural Design

Date: 2014
Height: Shop: 13.1m; RCC Annex:: 7m
Plan Dims: 26m x 98m
Type: Reinforced Concrete &Structural Steel

SIE scope includes providing a safe structural design of RCC and PEB consisting:

  • Shop structure is 98m long with a series of Steel Portal Frames of 25.5m spans spaced approximately at 7.45m c/c. The shop facility comprises of 2 no’s EOT cranes of 60T and 40T.
  • RC Framed structure adjacent to Machine shop consisting of Sub-station and Office Annex.

Structure is designed for Zone-3 seismic loading. Piled foundations are adopted as sub-strata issilty-clay.
Stability of steel structure is achieved by Steel portal frames in one direction and braced bays in another direction.
Shop is over 13.1m height in which 7.0m is block wall and rest is cladded with steel sheeting. RCC tie-beams are provided to restrain the Block wall laterally; which in-turn connected to main steel structure.