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Structural architecture for large roofs: concepts and realizations
Author(s) -
Majowiecki Massimo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bautechnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.224
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1437-0999
pISSN - 0932-8351
DOI - 10.1002/bate.200590056
Subject(s) - structural system , engineering , humanities , civil engineering , philosophy
Long span roofs are today widely applied for sport, social, industrial, ecological and other activities. The experience collected in last decades identified structural typologies as space structures, cable structures, membrane structures and new – under tension – efficient materials which combination deals with lightweight structural systems, as the state of art on long span structural design. In order to increase the reliability assessment of wide span structural systems a knowledge based synthetic conceptual design approach is recommended. Theoretical and experimental in scale analysis, combined with a monitoring control of the subsequent performance of the structural system, can calibrate mathematical modelling and evaluate long term sufficiency of design.