
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.
Tensegrity system has no structural member experiences a bending moment and there are no shear stresses within the system. This can produce exceptionally strong and rigid structures. Even though it’s greatly beneficial as a structured system, it was difficult to utilize its systems to an actual building.
One of the major hurdles of utilizing tensegrity system was the complex of its members, struts have to be angled in different directions with cables that have to be connected with different bars, which gives it difficult to apply to a system in building design. Based on the idea that Tensegrity system can be a module, it can be combine to create structure. The TIE (Tensegrity Integration Element) by son2yyk is developed to help utilizing Tensegrity system.
This tool resolved the issue of adapting the tensegrity structure to the building. If a user inputs geometry such as surface or volume where the tensegrity structure like to deploy, it automatically generates tensegrity structure within the geometry. Which gives freedom to a designer that they don’t have to design each bar and cables but able to explore possible configuration. By using a parametric CAD tool, a designer can change length, distance and other geometrical parameters to find better structural systems for their design.
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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