Thin-shell structure






Shell structure of the TWA Flight Center Building by Eero Saarinen, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York




The Forest Opera, an open-air amphitheatre in Sopot, Poland, with a membrane roof.





Great Court, with a lattice thin-shell roof by Buro Happold with Norman Foster, British Museum, London


Thin-shell structures are also called plate and shell structures. They are lightweight constructions using shell elements. These elements, typically curved, are assembled to make large structures. Typical applications include aircraft fuselages, boat hulls, and the roofs of large buildings.




Contents






  • 1 Definition


  • 2 Types


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 Further reading


  • 6 External links





Definition


A thin shell is defined as a shell with a thickness which is small compared to its other dimensions and in which deformations are not large compared to thickness. A primary difference between a shell structure and a plate structure is that, in the unstressed state, the shell structure has curvature as opposed to the plates structure which is flat. Membrane action in a shell is primarily caused by in-plane forces (plane stress), but there may be secondary forces resulting from flexural deformations. Where a flat plate acts similar to a beam with bending and shear stresses, shells are analogous to a cable which resists loads through tensile stresses. The ideal thin shell must be capable of developing both tension and compression.[1]



Types


The most popular types of thin-shell structures are:




  • Concrete shell structures, often cast as a monolithic dome or stressed ribbon bridge or saddle roof

  • Lattice shell structures, also called gridshell structures, often in the form of a geodesic dome or a hyperboloid structure


  • Membrane structures, which include fabric structures and other tensile structures, cable domes, and pneumatic structures.



See also




  • All-Russia Exhibition 1896

  • Félix Candela

  • Diagrid

  • Dyckerhoff & Widmann

  • Wilhelm Flügge

  • Eugène Freyssinet

  • Heinz Isler

  • List of thin shell structures

  • Monocoque

  • Pier Luigi Nervi

  • Frei Otto

  • Ernest Edwin Sechler

  • Vladimir Shukhov

  • Stretched grid method

  • Eduardo Torroja




References





  1. ^ Chen, Wai-Fah; Lui, E. M., eds. (2005-02-28). Handbook of Structural Engineering, Second Edition (2 ed.). Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 9780849315695..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




Further reading




  • Bechthold, Martin (2008-03-20). Innovative Surface Structures: Technologies and Applications (1 ed.). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415419673.


  • Suchov, Vladimir G. (1990). Rainer Gaefe, ed. VLADIMIR G. SUCHOV 1853-1939; Die Kunst Der Sparsamen Konstruktion (1st ed.). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN 9783421029843.



External links











  • Thin-shell structures

  • Double thin-shells structures

  • Hypar & Concrete Shells

  • Past and Future of Grid Shell Structures

  • Shape optimization of Shell and Spatial structure

  • Lattice Shell for Space Vehicles

  • International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures









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