Computational design of lightweight structures : form finding and optimization /

• Main Author: Descamps, Benoît (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Hoboken : ISTE ; Wiley, 2014.
• Series: Focus nanoscience and nanotechnology series.
• Subjects: Lightweight construction.; Structural design > Mathematics.; Space frame structures.; Building materials.; Space frame structures > Materials.; ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE > General.; Electronic books.

"This book presents a computational method for the preliminary shape design of lightweight structures. The strategy relies on fundamental concepts of structural design to formulate an optimization problem combining the theories of mathematical programming and structural mechanics. The method co...