TY - GEN
T1 - Conceptual Design of Reciprocal Self-stressed Roof Structures with Graphic Statics
AU - D’Acunto, Pierluigi
AU - Ohlbrock, Patrick Ole
AU - Konstantatou, Marina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The ability to work with both form and forces in the structural design process is crucial, particularly during the early design phase, as these are key parameters that impact the static behavior of a structure. Graphic statics offers a powerful geometric framework for the conceptual design of structures in static equilibrium, owing to the interdependence between form and force diagrams. When the form diagram of a self-stressed spatial pin-jointed framework has an underlying planar graph, its corresponding force diagram is reciprocal. It can itself be viewed as a self-stressed framework whose force diagram is the original form diagram. These configurations generally possess inherent architectural elegance and structural performance, making them particularly suitable for lightweight roof structures. This contribution outlines a graphic statics workflow for generating such structures using vector- and polyhedron-based approaches.
AB - The ability to work with both form and forces in the structural design process is crucial, particularly during the early design phase, as these are key parameters that impact the static behavior of a structure. Graphic statics offers a powerful geometric framework for the conceptual design of structures in static equilibrium, owing to the interdependence between form and force diagrams. When the form diagram of a self-stressed spatial pin-jointed framework has an underlying planar graph, its corresponding force diagram is reciprocal. It can itself be viewed as a self-stressed framework whose force diagram is the original form diagram. These configurations generally possess inherent architectural elegance and structural performance, making them particularly suitable for lightweight roof structures. This contribution outlines a graphic statics workflow for generating such structures using vector- and polyhedron-based approaches.
KW - form and force diagrams
KW - form-finding
KW - graphic statics
KW - reciprocal diagrams
KW - self-stressed structures
KW - structural design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85177059408&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-44328-2_67
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-44328-2_67
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85177059408
SN - 9783031443275
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 644
EP - 650
BT - Shell and Spatial Structures - Proceedings of IWSS 2023
A2 - Gabriele, Stefano
A2 - Manuello Bertetto, Amedeo
A2 - Marmo, Francesco
A2 - Micheletti, Andrea
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 2nd Italian Workshop on Shell and Spatial Structures, IWSS 2023
Y2 - 26 June 2023 through 28 June 2023
ER -