Against a brief historical overview, this paper presents the Database-assisted Design (DAD) approach, a conceptually simple, transparent, and rigorous approach to structural design for wind, which fully exploits the potential ...

The inflatable deployablemembrane antenna structures have many advantages such as small folding size, high reliability and low cost. The structure mainly consists of its center hub, thin-plate ribs, inflatable thermo-curing ...

The structure is the cover of a new ice skating rink, owned by the City of St. Louis Park, MN. It has a PTFE-coated fiberglass fabric roof, supported on glu-laminated timber arches. The cover is 73m x 41m in plan, and ...

In Rome’s EUR district, a new congress centre has opened recently, designed by the Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas. The project consists of three main elements, which the architect calls „Teca“ (theca), „Lama“ (blade) ...

In the paper, laboratory tests carried out by the authors with axial (0° - warp, 90° - weft) and off-axial (15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 75°) tensile and also with biaxial tensile with shear with different load ratios are described. ...

In this paper the mechanical properties degradation of aged coated fabrics is investigated. Tests on the tension strength and the tearing strength of the aged fabrics are carried out, which is from the membrane roof of ...

Photovoltaic (PV) solar technology is considered among the best product renewable energy sources for building applications. Flexible thin-film technology has potentials not only for traditional architectures, but also the ...

Digital tools have made it easy to design freeform surfaces and structures. The challenges arise later in respect to planning and construction. Their realization often results in the fabrication of many unique and ...

Coated F-12 aramid fabric can be used as the balloon envelopes material because of the high strength and light weight performance. In this paper, a multiscale non-orthogonal material model was established to capture the ...

The design process of membrane buildings and structural fabrics has to consider changes of the material properties due to long-term exposure to the environment. For the structural engineer the loss of tensile strength in ...

A hitherto unexploited effect: the reversible stretch-induced change of translucency and transparency of certain silicone materials is experimentally investigated with regard to an application in a new type of shading ...

This paper describes the implementation of an analysis technique for active bending beams starting on a rough curved architectural system.

This document presents the current situation of handling membrane structures within the BIM method, points out necessary steps to fully implement membrane structures into BIM and explains the benefit of an implementation.

Hybrid, bending-active structures constitute a challenging task for structural design due to the high dependency between shape and forces. Isogeometric analysis suggests itself in this context because of several advantages. ...

Ethylene-tetra-fluor-ethylene (ETFE) membrane structure presents itself as an innovative construction element, taking advantage of its flexibility, lightweight, transparency and thermal insulation properties. However, for ...

AIDA Cruises, the German-Italian subsidiary of the American shipping company Carnival Corporation, has one of the world’s most modern and most environmentally friendly fleets of cruise liners. The name AIDA suggests visits ...

Towards complex architecture and light-weight structures, conventional wind load estimation techniques fail. Hence, Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) plays a crucial role. CWE can be a very helpful tool in all design ...

In order to deeply investigate the wind pressure characteristics and the windinduced vibration characteristics of cable-membrane structure, a monitoring study on the Expo Axis cable-membrane structure was carried out. The ...

This report demonstrates the capabilities of an advanced research area of the applied mathematics, i.e., computational geometry to be applied for shaping dimensional structures. Vector-matrix models are provided to purpose ...

The proposed roof structure consists of a frame covered with a flexible fabric membrane. The frame comprises steel cable members linked together by struts and ties. Calculation formulas, needed for static analysis of the ...

Cable structures are light-weight, expressive from an architectural point of view and allow covering large spans without intermediate supports. They are far superior to the conventional bearer systems of buildings and ...

The governing equations for static structural membrane force equilibrium, for dynamic structural membrane force equilibrium and for transient strongly coupled fluidstructure interaction force equilibrium between structural ...