Unreasonable cost decisions often lead to fatal consequences for the partners involved into the planning/building process of the project. Many projects -most of them considered ambitioned, new and promising at the beginning- ...

This paper deals with the arrival of freedom at the world of structures giving birth a new generation of forms: the free forms. Its purpose is to analyze, to discuss and to comment critically this singular fact as well ...

Panes and shells as only in-plane loaded structural elements play an important role in lightweight structures. However their great bearing capacity will be reduced significantly when their homogeneous stress distribution ...

The Almuñecar Aquarium is a 3000 m2 underground installation that shows Mediterranean fauna on two levels below the Kuwait Square next to the market and near the City Hall of the andalusian town of Almuñécar (Spain). The ...

A new structural concept load relieving system is introduced which replaces unaffordable strain by reasonable deformation. A new kind of FEM element cable sliding element is also refer to. Its elementary presentation is ...

For free-forms the structural grid affects the design of the envelope as well as the design of the structure. Due to the complex geometry of the surface the directions of the normal lines will vary. The diversity of the ...

[EN] At present, Building Information Modeling (BIM) represents the information management system par excellence. Numerous companies are implementing BIM to reduce costs during all phases of a construction project. In ...

[ES] La industria de la construcción es un importante motor del desarrollo económico mundial, y en los últimos años se ha desarrollado rápidamente. Sin embargo, la industria de la construcción siempre ha sido una de las ...

Pushover analysis has been widely adopted in the seismic analysis of low- and medium-rise structures. It needs to be studied whether it is accurate for large-span spatial structure. In this paper, pushover analysis of a ...

This study is to consider the character of cables in six World-Cup stadiums constructed in 2002 and to inspect problems on measurement natural frequencies interpretation and application of existing theory. Because stay ...