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The Sultan Mirzan Mosque in Putrajaya is aptly called the "Steel Mosque" due to its unique design philosophy of using metal and glass to create the effect.
The internal chamber of the mosque is pillar free and the weight of the dome and roof is supported by steel trusses at the sides of the hall. From the image above, taken from inside the main chamber, the pillars at the sides of the hall are plentiful as as to carry the enormous weight of the roof.
The intricacies of the beams are designed to be curved, similar to what you could find in medieval cathedrals in Europe. In this case, instead of stone, the mosque uses steel. The image above shows the design structure of the support beams.
The mosque is separated into three distinct buildings. The smallest is the main entrance, as shown in the picture above.
The second piece, which is slightly larger than the entrance complex comprises of two similar open buildings at the two sides of the main building. In the picture above, on the left, you will see a lower roof of the second building. The highest roof is the main building itself as shown in the middle of the picture.
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Hi,
I am a PhD student doing research on computational mechanics. I find the pictures you took about Sultan Mirzan Mosque are very good to be used as engineering examples of curved structures in my research. May I use them in my research papers please? Of course, i will clearly indicate the resource of the pictures. If you agree and let me know your full name, I will put your name together with the picture when the paper is submitted to a research journal for publication.
Thank you in advance.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Zhenpei Wang
Sure. Just put the reference from this url should be sufficient.
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