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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 257

Analysis of Cable-Membrane Structures: Dynamic Relaxation Method

M. Hüttner, J. Máca and P. Fajman

Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Analysis of Cable-Membrane Structures: Dynamic Relaxation Method", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 257, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.257
Keywords: dynamic relaxation, cable, membrane, static analysis..

Summary
The paper is focused on the static analysis of the roofing of the Barrandov tram stop in Prague. The technique of dynamic relaxation was used. The verification of methods will be shown using a cable structure and a cable-membrane structure.

The Barrandov tram stop is a cable-membrane structure with a central symmetry, only one fourth of the structure has been modelled. Three different numerical models are presented: one cable model and two cable-membrane models. The background for the development of the numerical model is a geodetic survey of the existing structure.

The results show a relatively good agreement between the numerical and experimental analyses. For cable-membrane models it is recommended that the mesh of membrane elements should be improved. Therefore, implementation of the dynamic relaxation algorithm with a robust mesh generator is in progress.

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