TY - GEN
T1 - Form-finding and analysis of bending-active systems using dynamic relaxation
AU - Adriaenssens, Sigrid M.
AU - Rhode-Barbarigos, L.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A common challenge for architects and engineers in the development of structurally efficient systems is the generation of good structural forms for a specific set of boundary conditions, a process known as form-finding. Dynamic relaxation is a well-established explicit numerical analysis method used for the form-finding and analysis of highly non-linear structures. With the incorporation of bending and clustered elements, the method can be extended for the analysis of complex curved and bending-active structural systems. Bending-active structures employ elastic deformation to generate complex curved shapes. With low computational cost, dynamic relaxation has large potential as a design and analysis technique of novel large span structural systems such as spline stressed membranes and small scale robotics, bio-mechanics and architectural applications made of novel materials such as electro- Active polymers (EAP).
AB - A common challenge for architects and engineers in the development of structurally efficient systems is the generation of good structural forms for a specific set of boundary conditions, a process known as form-finding. Dynamic relaxation is a well-established explicit numerical analysis method used for the form-finding and analysis of highly non-linear structures. With the incorporation of bending and clustered elements, the method can be extended for the analysis of complex curved and bending-active structural systems. Bending-active structures employ elastic deformation to generate complex curved shapes. With low computational cost, dynamic relaxation has large potential as a design and analysis technique of novel large span structural systems such as spline stressed membranes and small scale robotics, bio-mechanics and architectural applications made of novel materials such as electro- Active polymers (EAP).
KW - Bending-active structures
KW - Cluster
KW - Dynamic relaxation
KW - Spline
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891274777
SN - 9788494168604
T3 - Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures VI - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Structures Membranes 2013
SP - 51
EP - 61
BT - Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures VI - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Structures Membranes 2013
T2 - 6th International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures, Structural Membranes 2013
Y2 - 9 October 2013 through 11 October 2013
ER -