
The Airshell Prototype
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
This grasshopper example by Petras Vestartas is useful for someone who wants to start studying reciprocal patterns.
Here you can find a series of examples for NGon 2.2 plugin, Some of the components also outputs adjacency information so that you will be able to set up Kangaroo2 simulation to reduce eccentricities.
The primary focus of that, was an application in round sections,
but there are examples in rectangular sections as well
Most of the examples follow the standard rhino mesh graph data-structure or polygonal grouping (NGons) following the translation:
or rotation logic
or rotation + tiling method
Behind some of the methods, Petras used basic graph traversing algorithms such as breath-first-search to iterate the mesh faces of the tessellated NURBS that are subdivided into meshes.
This paper by Alessandro Liuti, Sofia Colabella, and Alberto Pugnale, presents the construction of Airshell, a small timber gridshell prototype erected by employing a pneumatic formwork.
In this paper by Gregory Charles Quinn, Chris J K Williams, and Christoph Gengnagel, a detailed comparison is carried out between established as well as novel erection methods for strained grid shells by means of FE simulations and a 3D-scanned scaled physical model in order to evaluate key performance criteria such as bending stresses during erection and the distance between shell nodes and their spatial target geometry.
In this paper by Frederic Tayeb, Olivier Baverel, Jean-François Caron, Lionel du Peloux, ductility aspects of a light-weight composite gridshell are developed.
In this paper by Julian Lienhard, Holger Alpermann, Christoph Gengnagel and Jan Knippers structures that actively use bending as a self forming process are reviewed.
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