Constraint-Based Graphic Statics : New paradigms of computer-aided structural equilibrium design

Fivet, Corentin [UCL] Zastavni, Denis [UCL]

This paper presents a new computer-aided environment aimed at assisting designers during the very first stages of the structural design process. It gives designers the opportunity to build and modify interactively geometric constraints that control the structural shape and its static equilibrium simultaneously and in an entirely graphical way. Following a brief contextualisation, the paper presents the main features of the inner algorithms. Typical uses are then described in order to illustrate the wide range of applications and their practical benefits. As a result, it is argued that this environment opens up new opportunities for precognitive, chronology-free and highly interactive paradigms of structural equilibrium design.

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Document type	Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Access type	Accès libre
Publication date	2013
Language	Anglais
Conference	"IASS Symposium 2013 - “Beyond the Limits of Man”", Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland (du 23/09/2013 au 27/09/2013)
Peer reviewed	yes
Host document	J.B. Obrębski and R. Tarczewski ; "Proceedings of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Symposium 2013 “BEYOND THE LIMITS OF MAN”" (ISBN : 978-8-3749-3787-0)
Publisher	Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Publication status	Publié
Affiliation	UCL - SST/LAB - Louvain research institute for Landscape, Architecture, Built environment
Keywords	structural design ; static equilibrium ; graphic statics ; constraint-based geometry ; computer-aided design ; 2820 ; 2654 ; 1110 ; 2120 ; 2121 ; 2655
Links	http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/134393[Handle]

See also
	[boreal:134389]