TY - THES AU - Musto, Juan TI - Formfindung und Potential beanspruchungsadaptiver Faltungen PB - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen VL - Dissertation CY - Aachen M1 - RWTH-2023-01104 SP - 1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen, Diagramme PY - 2022 N1 - Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University 2023 N1 - Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2022 AB - Folding is a highly effi cient design principle with a relatively high load-bearing capacity using a small amount of material. In construction respectively steel construction,the use of folding’s is limited to the conventional longitudinal folds of thin-walled, fl at semi-finished products, which rely on hierarchically structured secondary structures such as trapezoidal sheets, Z-profi les, etc. Employing space folds, which combine point folds (pyramidal folds) with another structural layer, self-supporting folds canbe realized. The examples of such spatial folds are characterized by a regular folding pattern resulting from tessellation of geometry with regular primitive surfaces (triangles and quadrilaterals). In this research it is demonstrated that the effi ciency of such a light weight structure is improved when, instead of a regular and geometrically derived folding pattern, the folding pattern is designed according to stresses. For this purpose, a form finding process is proposed that derives a folding pattern based on a surface tessellation according to the principal stress directions. With the parameterization based mesh generation algorithm, a trajectory mesh is calculated,in which the mesh edges are adapted in their orientation and density to the direction and intensity of the principal stresses of a structural system. A comparison of the load bearing capacity of a folding structure, where the folding pattern is designed according to geometric principles with a corresponding folding pattern based on the developed trajectory network, shows that the stress-adaptivefolding requires significantly less material to carry the same load. In addition, it is characterized by a significantly stiff er structural behavior, as it presents itself with lower deformations, despite the lower material input. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)11 DO - DOI:10.18154/RWTH-2023-01104 UR - https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/889529 ER -