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Hyperbolic roof structures.
Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry s structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy.
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet.
The aerodynamics and thus the wind loading of buildings provided with an hyperbolic paraboloid roof is different from that of the same building provided with a different roof shape.
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The hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface and thus can be used to construct a saddle roof from straight beams.
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Concept structural design of buildings.
He is celebrated for his feats of architectural engineering that transform concrete into visual poetry with his structural design based on hyperbolic paraboloid geometric form.
His work with thin shell concrete roof structures broke barriers between architecture and engineering that opened the way for other architects such as santiago calatrava.
Previous studies have made this aspect evident for square and rectangular plan buildings and the differences prove to be even larger in the case of circular and elliptical plans.
Hyperbolic paraboloid structures the hyperbolic paraboloid is a doubly ruled surface and thus can be used to construct a saddle roof from straight beams.
Praaboloid repetitive structures and for those needing long column free spans reinforced concrete shell roofs have often been chosen.
Pringles are examples of hyperbolic paraboloids.
Tests on a one tenth scale model of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof.
Pringles are examples of hyperbolic paraboloids.
A roof structure for a hanger or the like in which first and second roof sections having the shapes of parts of respective first and second hyperbolic paraboloids having common base lines are.