Conference paper
Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas
Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
ARTEK, Section for Arctic Engineering and Sustainable Solutions, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Section for Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
University of Bath4
Villum Center for Advanced Structural and Material Testing, Centers, Technical University of Denmark5
The paper focuses on what the authors call ‘Polar Lightweight Structures’. The first part presents a collection of lightweight structures (LWS) designed and built for Antarctic conditions, with the aim of demonstrating the diversity of approaches attempted by designers. The second part of the paper presents two studies where different computational methods were applied for the design of generic LWS based on the local conditions of two particular Polar locations; namely, the Arctic region and Glacier Union in the Antarctic plateau.
Both studies were conducted independently with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of employing LWS of larger dimensions/scale than currently seen in Polar settings.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS ) |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Proceedings: | IASS 2017 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Pedreros, Jessica Fernandoy , Christ, Julian and Koss, Holger |
