StructuralComponents – a Toolbox for Conceptual Structural Design
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Anke Rolvink
Janwillem Breider Jeroen Coenders |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Venice 2010 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 768-769 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2010 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137810796063643 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Only a small number of tools for computational composition and definition of a structural concept of a building does exist. StructuralComponents provides the designing structural engineer with a toolbox for conceptual design based on a parametric and associative design approach. Structural principles are embedded into the design tools, enabling the engineer to generate various design alternatives in a short period of time, and judge these alternatives based on structural performance. The concepts can be adapted relatively quickly and analyses are rerun directly to study the influence of design parameters. The toolbox has been developed using .NET, an object oriented programming environment, and consists of several independent modules, which can be plugged together. This offers flexibility and versatility to the user, making the toolbox usable for multiple design projects. |
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| Keywords: |
conceptual design structural engineering parametric and associative modelling computational tools modular programming structural design tools tall building structures
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