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The design of tensile surface structures: From a hand calculation in 1958 to a contemporary numerical simulation

par Marijke, Mollaert;Devos, Rika ;Pyl, Lincy;De Laet, Lars
Référence Steel Construction, 8, 4, page (251-258)
Publication Publié, 2015-11

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The paper summarises the differences in design approach for tensile surface structures between the earliest structures in the 1950s and today’s practice. Current software tools allow more refined and advanced calculations. Nevertheless, a basic hand calculation can clarify the process in a few pages and provide the appropriate key data. A clear transparent set-up allows to redo the form finding and the structural analysis. The calculation of the cable net of the band stand by A. Paduart (1958) is analysed in this paper as a case study. Both the hand calculation (19 pages) and the numerical simulation are summarised and the design context of the initial as well as the current calculation is described. The approximations made by A. Paduart resulted in a remarkably intelligible and coherent evaluation of the cable net structure. The historical approach can still be applied for a first verification of a pretensioned cable net or for a membrane structure as the simplified calculation method is similar.