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Design of Initial Shape of Membrane Structures

Ivan Nemec, Rostislav Lang
Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series
2013, Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 105-109
Doi: 10.2478/tvsb-2013-0016
The subject of this article is the question of design and analysis of membrane structures. The first part of this article deals with the problem of form-finding. It is the problem of searching for the initial shape of membrane structure. In the second part of the article, an example of design and analysis of the membrane structure of a stadium roof is presented. This work was carried out with respect to the intention of companies Dlubal Software, s.r.o. and FEM consulting, s.r.o. to create the module for finding initial shapes of membrane structures, which would consequently be implemented into the software RFEM.
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