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4 - Articulated Compression-Only Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Masoud Akbarzadeh
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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This chapter covers various topics on the design of funicular forms with an emphasis on particular features in the structural forms. It starts by introducing the topological and geometrical relationship between the form and force diagrams in 2D and 3D and describes nodal and global equilibrium in the context of both 2D and polyhedral graphic statics. It explains how to find closed polyhedral cells from a group of faces and the computational approach that could be used for this purpose. It argues the necessity of implementing computational tools to explore the realm of intricate funicular forms with pronounced design features. To give instances of how computational implementation can help in design, various design examples are introduced, and their related design topics are explained. Note that the design domain in this approach is the force diagram. Thus all these design features are explained with respect to techniques of design incorporated in the force diagram that gives the desired feature in the funicular form. In the end, the translation of the cellular to shellular systems is explained and discussed as an interesting design approach that results in a more resilient structural form by creating anticlastic curvature in three-dimensional space.

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Polyhedral Graphical Statics
For Funicular Structural Form Finding
, pp. 175 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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