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Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Admin Stem For Success
Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Admin Stem For Success
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Students learn about earthquakes and engineering by building a structure that can survive an earthquake.
Design And Engineering Of A Tensile Fabric Structure, Jairo Rios
Design And Engineering Of A Tensile Fabric Structure, Jairo Rios
Theses
Fabric structures are designed in an iterative process between architect and engineer, analysis input and output, and detail and patterning. There are three main steps in designing a fabric structure: shape finding, loading, and patterning/ detailing.
Shapefinding consists of finding the shape of the fabric where the fabric forces are in equilibrium. This type of structure is geometrically nonlinear which require iterative analysis to converge on a unique solution.
The loading of the structure is similar to that of any conventional structures. The departure is in the major effects that suction and ponding have on fabric surfaces.
Usually the details …