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Computational Conceptual Design – Typological Exploration Of Spatial Truss Systems Through Optimization

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Pierluigi D'Acunto

Exploring a wide range of relevant design options from the outset is crucial for every sound conceptual design process. Optimization techniques are generally employed to generate well-performing structural design options. However, focusing only on performa ...

2023

Design versus Assessment of Concrete Structures Using Stress Fields and Strut-and-Tie Models

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Filip Niketic

Stress fields and strut-and-tie models are widely used for design and assessment of structural concrete members. Although they are often used in the same manner for both purposes, developing suitable stress fields and strut-and-tie models for the design of ...

2015

Toward development of a biomimetic tensegrity footbridge

Ian Smith, Nicolas Willy Veuve, Seif Dalil Safaei

Biomimetic structures interact with their environment, change their properties, learn and self-repair, thereby providing properties that are similar to living organisms. Interactions with the environment involve unique challenges in the field of computatio ...

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)2014

Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Punching Reinforcement and Strengthening of Concrete Flat Slabs

Thomas Keller, Robert Koppitz

Three different carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) systems were used to reinforce new or strengthen existing concrete slabs against punching. Untensioned CFRP plates or only very low prestressed CFRP straps could not prevent brittle punching failure. S ...

American Concrete Institute2013

Design through an incremental approach: the Swiss experience

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

In Switzerland, the current code for structural concrete published in 2003 privileged an incremental approach for design of new members or for assessment of existing structures with respect to a number of topics (shear, buckling, reinforcement detailing th ...

Joint IABSE-fib Conference2010

Applications of Stress Fields to Assess the Behavior and Strength of Coupling Beams subjected to Seismic Actions

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Horizontal loading due to earthquake or wind is usually the governing action for design of reinforced concrete cores in medium to tall buildings. Building cores designed to resist these actions must be dimensioned to resist tributary vertical loads and lar ...

3rd fib International Congress2010

Hybrid FRP-lightweight concrete sandwich system for engineering structures

Erika Schaumann

Hybrid slab systems combining fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites with concrete are promising load-bearing structures, and an increasing number of applications has demonstrated their high potential in terms of structural performance and durability. H ...

EPFL2008

Computer-Based Development of Stress Fields

Neven Kostic

Computer-aided approaches for the efficient development of suitable stress fields are useful tools for the structural design of concrete structures. The paper describes a new procedure that is used within a previously proposed approach for the automatic ge ...

Proceedings of the 6th Int. PhD Symposium in Civil Engineering, Zurich 20062006