doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7920-4_S2-A22-cd

ABSTRACT

Regular solutions for spatial frameworks are deduced from systemization and simplification of load bearing principles. Modern Hard- and Software allow calculation of different solutions in short time and probabilistic optimization methods allow effective search in solution space that accrued. By this irregular spatial structures can be generated, that show complex load bearing behavior. It is shown, that these have the ability to outperform regular ones in terms of weight, load bearing capacity and efficiency. In particularwhen dealingwith irregular boundary conditions, performance of such complex structures achieves a level at which these are in terms of the expense for materialization on a competitive base with regular ones. To do so, a powerful tool for the design of multifarious spatial framework structures is introduced and the capacity is shown by several examples.

Keywords: Architectural design, Evolutionary optimization, Complex structures.

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