"Lateral System Design of the New SoFI Stadium: BRBF Overview & Application”
Cost: SEAW Members and Students - FREE | Non-Members - $15
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About the Presentation:
The presentation addresses the unique aspects of the design of SoFi Stadium, a sports and entertainment complex in Inglewood, California. The presentation will highlight challenges posed by the scale of the stadium and its unique design, as well as the methods used to overcome these challenges. In particular, the presentation will discuss the large-capacity braces (which required new fabrication techniques), bracing connections to skewed columns and frames resulting from the oval shape of the stadium, compact frames and short braces resulting from the stadium’s sloped raker beams, and methods of effectively modeling and over 1000 BRBs to allow for an efficient structure and a streamlined structural-design process incorporating the capacity-based design of steel frame members based on brace expected strength.
About the Presenters:
Rafael Sabelli, Senior Principal & Director of Seismic Design, Walter P. Moore
Rafael Sabelli is a Senior Principal and Director of Seismic Design at Walter P Moore. Rafael has earned a Lifetime Achievement Award and a Special Achievement Award from AISC, as well as the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award. He is a member of the AISC Committee on Specifications, where he is vice-chair of the Technical Committee on the Seismic Provisions, and a member of the AISC Committee on Manuals, where he is chair of the Seismic Design Manual committee.
He is a member of, the ASCE 7 Seismic Task Committee and the NIST Building Seismic Safety Council’s Provisions Update Committee. Rafael was co-editor for the SEAOC Structural/Seismic Design Manual.
Rafael is co-author of Ductile Design of Steel Structures and has written extensively on the design and behavior of steel seismic systems. He has published technical papers on braced frames, connection design, and structural stability. He is the Past President of the Structural Engineers Association of California.
Rafael was Structural Engineer of Record for landmark projects including the award-winning San Francisco International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower and the Los Angeles Rams Sofi Stadium.
Zac Vidmar, Senior Engineer, CoreBrace, LLC
Zac Vidmar, P.E. is a Senior Engineer at CoreBrace, LLC. He is an experienced professional focused on steel construction. His current role includes coordination with design professionals to aid in the implementation of BRBF systems in various applications. Zac’s work includes the development of modeling aids, connection design aids, and overall coordination of necessary design values for connections in projects of all levels of complexity. In addition to this upfront coordination, he also manages the project coordination and completion of the final BRB design for the large-scale stadium and high-rise BRBF projects—including leading the CoreBrace team on the SoFi stadium project.
