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Form follows availability – Designing structures through reuse

Brütting, Jan
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Senatore, Gennaro  
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Fivet, Corentin  
Lázaro, Carlos
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Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe
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October 7, 2019
Form and Force
60th-Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

This work proposes a new direction in structural design: the synthesis of structures through the reuse of elements. Reusing structural elements reduces the environmental impacts of building structures because it avoids sourcing new material, it reduces waste and it requires little energy. Designing structures from reused elements is unlike conventional structural design because stock element availability is a design input. In other words, structures must be designed to fit given element characteristics, e.g. cross-sections and lengths. Stock constraints such as number of elements and element lengths, have a major influence on the optimal structure layout and form. In this new paradigm structural form follows availability. This work formulates new computational methods for the synthesis of reticular structures through reuse. Two scenarios are presented: a) reuse of reclaimed elements from a given stock, and b) design of a common stock which is used as a kit-of-parts to build diverse structures. Case studies are presented to demonstrate the potential of the proposed methods. It is shown that structures produced by these methods have a significantly lower environmental impact than minimum weight structures made of new elements.

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conference paper
Author(s)
Brütting, Jan
Senatore, Gennaro  
Fivet, Corentin  
Editors
Lázaro, Carlos
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Bletzinger, Kai-Uwe
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Oñate, Eugenio
Date Issued

2019-10-07

Publisher

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)

Publisher place

Barcelona, Spain

Published in
Form and Force
ISBN of the book

978-84-121101-0-4

Total of pages

8

Start page

2941

End page

2949

Subjects

structural design

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discrete optimization

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geometry optimization

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mixed-integer linear programming

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reuse

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stock

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Life Cycle Assessment

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environmental impact

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60th-Anniversary Symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures

Barcelona

October 7-10, 2019

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December 13, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/164006
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