TY  - GEN
AU  - Asefi, Maziar
TI  - Transformable and kinetic architectural structures : : design,evaluation and application to intelligent architecture
SN  - 9783639250626
U1  - 721 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Saarbrucken
PB  - VDM Verlag
N1  - CONTENTS
CONTENTS .1
L1ST OF FIGURES 4
ACKNOWLEDGMENT  14
PREFACE 15
BOOK OUTLINE 18
CHAPTER 1 TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES: HISTORY,
IACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT  21
1.1.   TRADITIONAL TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES 21
1.2.   TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN THE AREA OF TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES 1.2.1  Transformable or affiliated transformable structures with rigid elements 26
   1.2.2.    Transformable or affiliated transformable structures with deformable    elements 34
1.3.   SUMMARY  44
CHAPTER 2 CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES 47
2.1.   EXISTING CLASSIFICATIONS AND APPROACHES FOR TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURES  48
2.2.   CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES 50
2.3.   STRUCTURE AND ORGANISATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION  51
2A   DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA  54
2.5.    USE OF DESIGN EVALUATION CRITERIA IN THIS BOOK 57
CHAPTER 3 TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES 
3.1.   DEVELOPMENT AND MAIN STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES 59
3.2.   FORM-FINDING OF TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE MEMBRANES  61
3.3.   THE CLASSIFICATION OF TRANSFORMABLE TENSILE MEMBRANE  62
3J.7.    Transformable integrated forms 66
3.3.2.    Transformable non-integrated forms 66
3.3.3.    Form variations  66
3.3.4.    Transformation mechanisms and morphology  67
3.3.5.    Material 
3.3.6.    Evaluation of transformable tensile membranes  103
3.4.   TRANSFORMABLECOMPRESSIVE-TENSILE STRUCTURES  108
3.4.1.    Tensegrity structures  109

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