A Parametric Structural Design Tool (Grasshopper Interface) for Plate Structures

Master thesis (2012)

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J. Rots (mentor)
A. Borgart (mentor)
S. Pasterkamp (mentor)
Programme
Structural and Building Engineering (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2012 Liang, D.
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Published Date

12-12-2012

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Programme

Structural and Building Engineering

Abstract

The thesis presents a parametric design tool for plate structural analysis. The goal of the thesis is to establish a real-time visualized program for structural calculation and to make it parameterized. The tool is based on a visualized drawing program Rhino with Grasshopper plug-in to generate the parametric environment for the plate structural analysis. The solution of plate analysis is computed by membrane analogy. Followed by rain-flow analysis, the relation between shear force flows and the structural geometry is presented. Two computational programs will be introduced. One is out-of-plane tool; the other is for in-plane calculation.