A description of the structural design of tall buildings through the grammar paradigm
A description of the structural design of tall buildings through the grammar paradigm
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Engineers
Spatial to kinematically determined structural transformations
Advanced Engineering Informatics
An investigation of the option space in conceptual building design for advanced building simulation
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A semantics-based approach for collaborative aircraft tooling design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Supporting the designer's and the user's perspectives in computer-aided architectural design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Knowledge-based schedule generation and evaluation
Advanced Engineering Informatics
An automated stabilisation method for spatial to structural design transformations
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Automated design studies: Topology versus One-Step Evolutionary Structural Optimisation
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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Computer support for conceptual structural design is still ineffective. This is due, in part, to the fact that current computer applications do not recognize that structural design and architectural design are highly interdependent processes, particularly at the early stages. The goal of this research is to assist structural engineers at the conceptual stage with early digital architectural models. This paper presents a geometric modeling framework for facilitating the engineers' interactions with architectural models in order to detect potential structural problems, uncover opportunities, respect constraints, and ultimately synthesize structural solutions interactively with architectural models. It consists of a process model, a representation model and synthesis algorithms to assist the engineer on demand at different stages of the design process. The process model follows a top-down approach for design refinements. The representation model describes the structural system as a hierarchy of entities with architectural counterparts. The algorithms rely on geometric and topologic relationships between entities in the architectural model and a partial structural model to help advance the synthesis process. A prototype system called StAr (Structure-Architecture) implements this framework. A case study illustrates how the framework can be used to support the conceptual structural design process.