Acta Scientiarum Polonorum

Abstract: Different designs of parabolic steel domes (ribbed dome, Schwedler dome, lamella dome) with the diameter D = 46 m and the height H = 8 m are compared in this paper. Rigidly – joined and pin – connected systems were used. Dead loads, wind loads and snow loads were included. Rods sections were chosen using results of the computation in the program Robot and considering ULS and SLS conditions. It was found that in most cases the mass of a construction was determined by permissible deformation (critical value of the vertical deformation was set as D/300 and of the horizontal deformation as H/150). The Schwedler dome shoved the smallest mass. The trimmed lamella dome demanded less mass than the lamella dome without rings. The increase of the number of supports in the rigidly – joined ribbed dome decreased slightly the construction mass.