Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas

Jessica Fernandoy Pedreros; Julian Christ; Paul Shepherd; Holger Koss

Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas

Jessica Fernandoy Pedreros, Julian Christ, Paul Shepherd, Holger Koss

Department of Civil Engineering

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Abstract

The paper focuses on what the authors call ‘Polar Lightweight Structures’. The first part presents a collection of lightweight structures (LWS) designed and built for Antarctic conditions, with the aim of demonstrating the diversity of approaches attempted by designers. The second part of the paper presents two studies where different computational methods were applied for the design of generic LWS based on the local conditions of two particular Polar locations; namely, the Arctic region and Glacier Union in the Antarctic plateau. Both studies were conducted independently with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of employing LWS of larger dimensions/scale than currently seen in Polar settings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017 “Interfaces: architecture.engineering.science”
Number of pages	10
Publisher	International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS )
Publication date	2017
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	IASS 2017: Interfaces - Architecture. Engineering. Science - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 25 Sep 2017 → 28 Sep 2017

Conference

Conference	IASS 2017
Country	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	25/09/2017 → 28/09/2017

Keywords

Lightweight structures
Polar regions
Structural optimisation
Topology optimisation
Frame-supported membrane structure
Stochastic wind loading

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Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas
Julian Christ (Speaker)
25 Sep 2017 → 28 Sep 2017
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Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas. / Pedreros, Jessica Fernandoy; Christ, Julian; Shepherd, Paul; Koss, Holger.

Proceedings of the IASS Annual Symposium 2017 “Interfaces: architecture.engineering.science”. International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS ), 2017.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

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