Shell structures have been regularly used in the past for creating huge spanning structures, with the use of minimal material. Even though this method saves a lot of material, the labor cost of constructing these structures is high, due to the amount of work on the building site.
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Shell structures have been regularly used in the past for creating huge spanning structures, with the use of minimal material. Even though this method saves a lot of material, the labor cost of constructing these structures is high, due to the amount of work on the building site. By prefabricating these structures, a huge amount of labor and therefor money is saved. While research into prefabricating shell structures has been done, some research needs to be done before shell structures can be prefabricated. On of these topics is the connection of prefabricated segments. To make sure the connections suffice, a method is designed to have the connection tested and analysed. Besides small scale testing, a model for analyzing the connections in a shell is proposed, to make sure the connections hold up in a full scale shell.