ISHIKAWA, Koichiro(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-01)
Spatial structures such as a gymnasium and an exhibition hall often use the ceiling because of sound effects. On the other hand, the ceiling members fell down on a large scale. This is the reason why it is needed to ...
KATO, Shiro; OYA, Takanori; NAKAZAWA, Shoji; KIM, Yun-Beom(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-01)
The present paper discusses the efficiency of a new steel hysteretic device, abbreviated as ¿J-damper¿, proposed for an intermediate seismic isolation system of spatial structures. In order to show the effectiveness, a ...
VEGH, Ludevit; VEGH, Petr(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-18)
The growth of population, industry, megacities, car traffic, intensity of building industry,
etc. with consequent health threatening environmental pollution, became a most urgent
global problem number one of the development ...
BELIS, Jan; DE CLEEN, Bram; VERWIMP, Frank; DELINCE, Didier; VAN IMPE, Rudy(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-26)
the technology exists to melt and fuse certain glass types into astonishing shapes.
Transforming this technology to the scale of building components would create an
innovative tool with a high architectural potential.
However, ...
COENDERS, Jeroen L(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-14)
Structural design deals with solving the complex problem of the realisation of a building
from the initiation to final execution. During this process many complicated sub-processes
take place which handle with large ...
KAMINSKI, Mieczyslaw; MAJ, Marek(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-18)
These investigations were carried out on silo models, free-standing silos and silo batteries. The researches include the evaluation of value of pressure and temperature field on the silo wall as well as temperature gradient, ...
In order to have a good understanding of the failure mechanism of single-layer saddle-curve reticulated shells under earthquake motion, dynamic failure mode of single-layer saddlecurve reticulated shells under earthquake ...
GARLOCK, Maria E. Moreyra; BILLINGTON, David P.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-11-25)
Félix Candela was a world-renowned engineer, builder, and structural artist of thin-shell
concrete-roof structures in the mid 20th century. Although a native of Spain, his exile to
Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil ...
TAKASHIMA, Hideyuki(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-01)
Engaku Temple has been built at Kamakura City nearby Yokohama in 1285. The
SHARIDEN is one of the facitilies there in order to store the Buddha's bone and has been
selected as Japanese national treasure. However, most ...
Form finding of shells for building structures is normally mainly influenced by structural
reasons. Therefore form finding methods as turned hanging models or pneumatic structures have been developed. The task for the ...
Natural draft cooling towers (NDCTs) presently form the world-largest RC shell structures, solar updraft power plants (SUPPs) will do this in future. The paper starts with explanations of the working principles of NDCTs ...
KALDENHOFF, Martin(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-11-25)
This article describes some experiences with flow funnel in large concrete silos with a large discharge eccentricity. Some in-situ measurements were made (full-size experiments) and the results are described here. As a ...
The Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design has for many years been
actively engaged in the research and development of advanced glass structures and systems, including long-span glass arches, ...
In 2008, an earthquake with magnitude 8.0 happened in Southwest China. Several grid
structures damaged or collapsed in this earthquake. Through investigation in the earthquake hit area, documents and precious pictures of ...
GODOY, Luis A.(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-11-25)
This paper presents an overview of recent research aimed at understanding the behavior of aboveground steel tanks under wind loads, carried out by the author and by other researchers in this field. The tanks considered are ...
VEGH, Petr(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-18)
Many factors contributing to the impact of new and existing structures on the environment are a direct or indirect result of the consumption of energy for building, operating, maintaining and disposing of these structures. ...
ZAMMIT, Kenneth; OVEREND, Mauro(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-26)
Brittleness is the unintended, but inevitable consequence of producing a transparent
ceramic for architectural applications such as the soda-lime glass. Its tensile strength is
particularly sensitive to surface imperfections, ...
AYUGA, Francisco; GONZALEZ-MONTELLANO, Carlos; GALLEGO, Eutiquio; FUENTES, Jose Maria; RAMIREZ, Alvaro(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-11-25)
Silos are widely used in food industries to store different types of agricultural products.
Loads exerted by the stored material on silo walls are critical in the design of the shell
structure. Eurocode standard represents ...
WEINAND, Yves(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-12-18)
In recent years, the necessity of using renewable resources and sustainable solutions in the building sector has become obvious, and interest in timber as a building material has
revived. Novel timber-derived products, ...