On the equilibrium of simplicial masonry structures

  • Authors:
  • Fernando de Goes;Pierre Alliez;Houman Owhadi;Mathieu Desbrun

  • Affiliations:
  • Caltech;INRIA;Caltech;Caltech

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2013 Conference Proceedings
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a novel approach for the analysis and design of self-supporting simplicial masonry structures. A finite-dimensional formulation of their compressive stress field is derived, offering a new interpretation of thrust networks through numerical homogenization theory. We further leverage geometric properties of the resulting force diagram to identify a set of reduced coordinates characterizing the equilibrium of simplicial masonry. We finally derive computational form-finding tools that improve over previous work in efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.