Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures (한국공간구조학회논문집)
- Volume 7 Issue 3 Serial No. 25
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- Pages.87-95
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- 2007
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- 1598-4095(pISSN)
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- 2287-7401(eISSN)
Investigation and Numerical Analysis of Node Connectors in Free-Form Spatial Structures
- Hwang, Kyung-Ju (Dep. of Architecture, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, Univ.) ;
- Park, Don-U (Dep. of Architecture, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, Univ.) ;
- Park, Sun-Woo (Dep. of Architecture, The Korean National Univ.) ;
- Knippers, Jan (Dep. of Architecture, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, Univ.)
- Published : 2007.06.15
Abstract
The recent completions of free-form spatial structures provide us a very attractive form. To realize such an extraordinary shape, it is absolutely necessary that the connector systems have to be investigated the characteristics of the systems and analyzed with a practicable method. In this context, this research consists of not only literature research but also numerical analysis with selected connector systems, which was adopted in real free-form spatial structures. For numerical analysis, especially, finite element analysis (FEA) is performed with a various test parameter using a commercial program ANSYS. Consequently, the general characteristics of node connectors the moment-rotation-curves are presented by considering a large deformation effect as well as a multi-linear material properties.
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