In structural engineering, the tube is the name given to the systems where in order to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, etc. ) a building is designed to act like a three-dimensional hollow tube, hence the name, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground. The system was introduced by Fazlur Rahman Khan while at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's (SOM) Chicago office.

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  • In structural engineering, the tube is the name given to the systems where in order to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, etc. ) a building is designed to act like a three-dimensional hollow tube, hence the name, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground. The system was introduced by Fazlur Rahman Khan while at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's (SOM) Chicago office. The first example of the tube’s use is the 43-story Khan-designed DeWitt-Chestnut Apartment building in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 1963. The system can be constructed using steel, concrete, or composite construction (the discrete use of both steel and concrete). It can be used for office, apartment, and mixed-use buildings. Most buildings in excess of 40 stories constructed in the United States from the period after World War II to the 1990s were of this structural type. It is slowly being overtaken by the use of core-supported type structures.
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  • In structural engineering, the tube is the name given to the systems where in order to resist lateral loads (wind, seismic, etc. ) a building is designed to act like a three-dimensional hollow tube, hence the name, cantilevered perpendicular to the ground. The system was introduced by Fazlur Rahman Khan while at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's (SOM) Chicago office.
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  • Tube (structure)
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