Graphical Methods for the Design of Structures
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Alessandro Beghini
(Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP San Francisco, CA, USA)
Mark Sarkisian (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP San Francisco, CA, USA) Neville Mathias (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP San Francisco, CA, USA) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2221-2227 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 7 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.2220 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper describes the use of Graphic Statics for the design of a number of structures. Graphical methods provide significant insights in the structural behaviour and allow direct application of Maxwell’s Theorem of Load Paths for structural optimization. |
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| Keywords: |
graphic statics reciprocal diagrams optimal layout truss structures
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