NEILL, Megan; VAN DE STRAAT, Roel; COENDERS, Jeroen(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-29)
Computer-aided design tools can be of great assistance in the design process. However,
commercial software typically caters to the optimisation of one objective and does not
address the fact that real world problems tend ...
Current analysis tools available to the designing structural engineer do not support the early design stage on a conceptual level, since these tools are mainly aimed at precision rather than flexibility, the generation of ...
VAN SWINDEREN, Tom; COENDERS, Jeroen(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-29)
This paper introduces a new application to design masonry double-curved shells. It uses the theory of Thrust Network Analysis (TNA) to analyse a parameter based force network model. One goal of the application is to optimise ...