The application of folded plate principles on spatial structures with regular, irregular and free-form geometries

Abstract

The two main folding plate principles of pointed folding plates forming an facet texture and longitudinal folding plates forming the typical fold texture imply different fields of application in architecture and structural engineering. This Paper presents a method of developing the folding plate principles on spatial structures also with irregular and freeform geometries. Hereby algorithms of triangulation, originally applied in finite elements analysis, are used for discretisation and form-finding of the textures of folded plate shells