Thin-shell structure
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Thin-shell structures can be defined as curved structures capable of transmitting loads in more than two directions to supports. Loads applied to shell surfaces are carried to the ground by the development of compressive, tensile, and shear stresses acting in the in-plane direction of the surface. Thin shell structures are uniquely suited to carrying distributed loads and find wide application as roof structures in building.
[edit] Notable Projects
- Eero Saarinen, TWA Flight Center of John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York[1]
- Eero Saarinen, Washington Dulles International Airport
- Norman Foster, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum, London
- Norman Foster and Ken Shuttleworth, Swiss Re "Gherkin", London
- Leandro V. Locsin, The Church of Holy Sacrifice, University of the Philippines, Diliman
- Millennium Dome, London
- Jørn Utzon, Sydney Opera House
- Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
- Frank Gehry, DG Bank building, Berlin
- Ville Hara, Lattice lookout tower, Helsinki, Finland
- Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, «Poème électronique» Philips Pavilion, Expo '58, Brussels
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge
- Ingalls Rink, Yale University
- Denver International Airport, Denver
- Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, St. Louis
- Gyo Obata, the McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center in St. Louis
- Georgia Dome, Atlanta
- Dorton Arena, Raleigh
- Imperial War Museum, Duxford
- Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Montreal
- Hyperbolic roof Olympic Stadium, Munich, Munich
- Hyperbolic paraboloid roof Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary
- Aquatoll lattice thin-shell
- Dos Hermanas Velodrome Roof
- Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station)[2]
- Dortmund Opera House
- Kingdome, Seattle
- L'Oceanogràfic, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia
- Payson Multipurpose Center, Payson, Arizona
- Planetarium, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade, Jena, Germany
- Putrajaya Convention Centre, Malaysia[3]
- Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Swiss
- Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, England[4]
- Vela - Milan Trade Fair, Milan, Italy
[edit] See also
- Vladimir Shukhov
- Panrussian Exposition 1896
- Pier Luigi Nervi
- Eero Saarinen
- Le Corbusier
- Norman Foster
- Frank Gehry
- Jørn Utzon
- Félix Candela
- Tensile architecture
- Tensile and membrane structures
- Concrete shell
- Geodesic dome
- Hyperboloid structure
[edit] External links
- Thin-shell structures
- Double thin-shells structures
- Thin-shell construction
- Steel lattice shell structure of Nagoya Dome
- Lattice shell of Berlin Central Station
- Lattice shell of Mémorial de Gorée
- Engineering the British Museum Great Court
- Lamella Shell
- Shells: Hyperbolic paraboloids (hypar)
- Hypar & Concrete Shells
- Analyses hyperboloidal Shells
- Institute for Lightweight Structures, Stuttgart, Germany
- International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures
- Gunnar Tibert. Numerical analyses of cable roof structures
- Lightweight and innovative structures
- Rotonda of the Panrussian Exposition 1896
- Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov
