Modeling of bending-torsion couplings
in active-bending structures


Application to the design of elastic gridshells


Thèse de doctorat présentée le
20/12/2017
Lionel du Peloux

Jean-François Caron

Olivier Baverel (Dir.)

Cyril Douthe

Provide new tools to help architects and engineers
designing and building elastic gridshells


Focus : discrete beam models for nonlinear formfinding and structural analysis

Context

(*) Douthe 2007, Bouhaya 2010, Kotelnikova 2012, Tayeb 2015, du Peloux 2017

Plan
  • Introduction to the concept
  • Design process : overview

  • Beam model : variational approach
  • Beam model : equilibrium approach
  • New discrete beam element

  • Implementation & test case
Plan
  • Introduction to the concept
  • Design process : overview

  • Beam model : variational approach
  • Beam model : equilibrium approach
  • New discrete beam element

  • Implementation & test case
Plan
  • Introduction to the concept
  • Design process : overview

  • Beam model : variational approach
  • Beam model : equilibrium approach
  • New discrete beam element

  • Implementation & test case