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Analysis and Design of Shell and Spatial Structures (by invitation only)
Shell and spatial structures are representative of some of the most efficient structural systems in which the optimized use of materials is combined with effective structural forms. The continuing development of analysis methods, design approaches and construction techniques of shell and spatial structures has resulted in an increasing interest to engineers, architects, and builders.
The Special Issue will be devoted to the design, modelling, analysis, construction, and other aspects of the technology of all types of shell and spatial structures. These may include, but are not limited to: • Tension and membrane structures • Framed and lattice structures • Gridshells and active-bending structures • Shell roofs • Tensegrity structures • Pneumatic and inflatable structures • Active and deployable structures • Concrete • Metal • Masonry • Timber • Bio-based • Spatial structures.
The topics of the Special Issue include experimental and theoretical studies, analysis methods and approaches regarding their design, computational form finding, structural optimization, manufacturing, testing and maintenance.
Editors
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Sigrid Adriaenssens
Sigrid Adriaenssens is a Professor at Princeton University where she directs the Form Finding Lab and teaches courses on (non‐)linear mechanics of solids and slender structures, structural design and thee integration of engineering and the arts. Her research interests lie in the mechanics of large‐span structural surfaces under extreme loading and under resource-constraint construction conditions.
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Amedeo Manuello
Amedeo Manuello is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic of Turin. His research is dedicated to specific studies conducted on the instability phenomena of slender elements with thin sections, open thin sections, on snap-through instability phenomena of shells and segmental arches, instability interaction and parametric design for arches and grid-shells.
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Francesco Marmo
Francesco Marmo is an Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II, where he teaches Finite Element Analysis of Structures and Continuum and Structural Mechanics. He graduated with honors in Civil Engineering in 2004 at the University of Naples Federico II, where he also obtained a PhD degree in 2008. His research interests include assorted topics of computational mechanics applied to multi-stable structures, contact mechanics, inclusion problems, optimization of shell structures, design of bioinspired structural systems, masonry, and reinforced concrete structures.
