Abstract: Concrete shells undoubtedly remain one of the genuine structural elements in contemporary architecture. However, designers have always been faced with difficulties in determining their shapes and, therefore, have developed ...

Abstract: The potential applications of tensegrity structures are not only increasing in civil engineering but also in fields like biomechanics. The key step in designing tensegrity, the form-finding problem, has been investigated ...

Abstract: Origami and paperfolding techniques may inspire the design of structures that have the ability to be folded and unfolded: their geometry can be changed from an extended, servicing state to a ...