Cross laminated timber: a key material for the future of structural design

2013 ◽  
pp. 537-544
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Cross Laminated Timber ◽  
The Future

Reconnecting governance configuration variables to enterprises contingency factors for optimizing productivity at the start-up level

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
System Control ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Future

PurposeThe article broaches the important topic of the relationships between governance operationalizations and productivity at the start-up level. It proposes a new approach to reconnect the contingency factors to the optimization of productivity. This helps us to identify the changing characteristics that influence the determinants of decisions, actions and management of the technological projects of the mainly innovative enterprises.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses techniques that effectively solve unobserved endogeneity and heterogeneity problems in enterprises: an empirical–structural design. With this method, this study enables rich empirical conceptualization and helps with extending theory. However, there is a need to further the research by taking into account the system analysis and the complexity of the research object: one of the options might be to explore a possible follow-up of the research through drawing on ethnostatistics and qualimetrics.FindingsThe analysis reveals that the phenomenon of technological project productivity in operational governance context is thus manifested by the coexistence of the applied governance configuration variables, the contingency factors operationalization, the optimizing productivity mechanisms and this with the secular innovation and stagnation and stagnation. Ceteris paribus, the governance operationalizations have an important role in the productivity of technological projects of the innovative enterprises.Originality/valueThis research is the first to mobilize as major determinants of the operationalization of governance, the oversight of the capital, the dividend strategy and the system control, the managerial follow-up, the detection of opportunistic behaviours and the application of governing incentives (among others) as governance configuration variables in order to highlight their interactions with productivity in the innovative firm technological projects. For this reason alone, the paper will be referenced by other authors in the future.

scholarly journals Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jisong Zhang ◽  
Lihua Zhao ◽  
Guoqian Ren ◽  
Haijiang Li ◽  
Xiaofei Li
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. Not until recently have the importance of structural engineering and its contribution to sustainable building design been full recognised. However, due to the highly fragmented and diversity of knowledge across building and infrastructure domains, there is a lack of approach that can address all the sustainable issues within the structural design. This paper reviews the sustainable design from the perspective of structural engineering: (1) reviewing the current situation; (2) identifying the gaps and difficulties; and (3) making recommendations for future improvements. The strategies and indicators, as well as BIM-enabled methodology, for sustainable structural design (SSD) are also discussed in a holistic way. The results of this investigation show that most of the methods are not doing well in terms of delivering a successful sustainable structural design. It is expected that the future BIM could probably provide such a platform to address these issues.

Design and Simulation of Scalable Plastering Machine Based on Virtual Prototyping Technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 721 ◽  
pp. 691-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Li ◽  
Xiao Jing Shang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Virtual Prototyping ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Solid Model ◽  
Optimized Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Virtual Prototyping Technology

Design a scalable plastering machine for the traditional plastering machine problems in the structural design. On the basis of the three-dimensional solid model established using PRO / E, we make the simulation for the institutions overall course of the campaign through using ADAMS, to detected design products by experience whether meet the actual requirements or not, but also provide a theoretical basis for the optimized design of wall plastering machine in the future.

Structural design of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) by advanced plate theories

2010 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 1368-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Stürzenbecher ◽  
K. Hofstetter ◽  
J. Eberhardsteiner
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Cross Laminated Timber

Student Workshop – Structures of Le Ricolais

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Per Dombernowsky
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Structural Models ◽  
Successful Student ◽  
The Future ◽  
Philosophical Writings

The exhibition “Robert Le Ricolais: Visions and Paradox” displayed at the Aarhus School of Architecture in October 1998 was used as a source of inspiration for a one-week student workshop on structures. The objective of the student workshop was to create a conceptual structural design inspired by the exhibited structural models of Le Ricolais and by his philosophical writings on structures. It was realised by the Aarhus faculty that the philosophical ideas of Le Ricolais are not very easy, neither to fully understand nor to transform into structural design for architectural students. In spite of that fact, it became obvious to the faculty that many of the students, inspired by the exhibition, managed to make interesting structural designs. In addition, the faculty was inspired by the exhibition (and the successful student workshop as well) to think of different concepts for the final curriculum of structural design at the Aarhus School of Architecture in the future.

Recent Developments in North American Aluminum Structural Design Codes

2016 ◽  
Vol 710 ◽  
pp. 427-432
Author(s):  
J. Randolph Kissell
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Design Codes ◽  
Strength Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Future Direction

Since INALCO 2013, the two main North American aluminum structural design codes – the Canadian Standards Association’s (CSA) S157 Strength Design in Aluminum and the Aluminum Association’s Specification for Aluminum Structures – have undergone significant changes. S157’s 2015 edition is the first significant revision of the Canadian aluminum structural standard since 2005, and the 2015 update of the Specification for Aluminum Structures is the first since 2010. This paper addresses the specific changes and their trends, viewed from a larger perspective to anticipate the future direction of these codes.

A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - Future problems facing the designer

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 573-578 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Factory Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

I am aware of, and grateful for, the honour you show me by asking me to address you on the subject of ‘Future problems facing the designer’. I am afraid, however, that you may have overestimated my powers. Like the Danish cartoonist Storm-Petersen I find it very difficult to prophesy - very difficult indeed - and especially about the future. But I can tell you straight away what I fear may happen: that designers in the future will even more than now be working under constraints which will make it impossible for them to give of their best. And I could add that even more than now their best may not be good enough because it is too narrowly based. This I think is by far the gravest problem facing designers, and it is a problem for all of us, unless present trends are reversed. This is a somewhat pessimistic answer, and probably not what you expected. My opinion is of course based on my own experiences as a designer of sorts, and it is therefore a very personal one. Let us hope I am wrong. The word ‘design’, used as a noun or verb, can mean many different things. Here we are concerned with design as a link in the process of building and construction. Incidentally I make no distinction between the two; such distinctions have become obsolete with growing mechanization and factory production. It would not do, however, to limit the discussion to structural design only, using the word in its narrower sense, for whereas everything we build or make must have structure to keep its intended shape, the structure itself is only a means to an end, its merit cannot be judged without reference to the thing of which it forms part.

Structural Integrity Procedures for Naval Ships

1980 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Palermo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Fracture Mechanics ◽  
Nondestructive Testing ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Production Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Material Sciences

The application of both light and heavy sections of high strength metals in weight sensitive ships demands that structural integrity principles be followed during all stages of design, fabrication and life-cycle support of ship structures. The integration of the interfacing disciplines of material sciences, fracture mechanics, structural design, welding engineering, production engineering and nondestructive testing are necessary ingredients of the Navy’s structural integrity plan. The relationships of these groups in the past, and envisioned in the future, are discussed. Results of early structural integrity efforts for present day ships as well as structural integrity aspects of ongoing designs are also discussed.

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