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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 327, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2023.117653
Keywords
Form-finding; Gridshells; Elastica; Quasi-Newton method; Glass fiber reinforced polymer rods
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In this paper, a new form-finding method based on spatial elastica model (FMSE) is proposed for elastic gridshells. The method integrates the deformations of elastic rods into the overall deformation of the gridshell, and solves a set of transcendental equations using the quasi-Newton method to ensure the deformation satisfies the given boundary conditions. The method is validated through experiments and expected to have potential applications in the investigations of elastic gridshells.
In engineering design, elastic gridshells, which are composed of a number of elastic rods, are advantageous because they are lightweight, easy to construct, and low-cost as well as have a long-span space. However, the form-finding of a gridshell is challenging owing to the large deformation and strong geometric-nonlinearity of the structure.In this paper, a new form-finding method based on spatial elastica model (FMSE) is proposed. The de-formations of elastic rods, obtained via the elliptic integral solution of spatial elastica, is integrated into the overall deformation of the gridshell. A set of transcendental equations is solved using the quasi-Newton method to ensure that the deformation of the gridshell satisfies the given boundary conditions. To validate the proposed FMSE method, desktop experiments (designed using the theory of Chebyshev nets) are performed on gridshells made of glass fiber reinforced polymer rods. The predictions of the FMSE method agree well with the experimental results.Accordingly, the proposed FMSE method is expected to have potential applications in elastic gridshells, on the investigations of form-finding, load-bearing capability, non-local deformation behavior, and also stability of structures.
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