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Self-Forming Fabric-Formed Funicular Shells and Moulds.

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Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011
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Year: 2011
Abstract:

This paper describes new methods of constructing funicular shell structures using hanging fabric sheets, made rigid by fibre-reinforced concrete, fibreglass, or grouted masonry units, producing full- size funicular shells or shell moulds. This method, developed at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture’s Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology (CAST), is similar to Heinz Isler’s production of funicular, hanging fabric, shell models, with two fundamental differences: 1. the fabric sheets are full-size and 2. flat fabric sheets are used that may buckle freely along lines of principle tension stress. This method produces complex buckling-resistant, funicular shell shapes of great beauty through an essentially “self-forming” process that is simple, economical, and accessible.

Keywords:
fabric formwork flexible formwork funicular shells funicular shell formwork
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