Print Email Facebook Twitter Spider web design: “Research and development on the application of spider silk and web typology in the building industry” Title Spider web design: “Research and development on the application of spider silk and web typology in the building industry” Author Karapanou, A. Contributor Nijsse, R. (mentor) Veer, F.A. (mentor) Klein, T. (mentor) Eigenraam, P. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Programme Structural and Building Engineering Date 2014-08-29 Abstract In today’s world, terrorism is an unfortunate reality. Since 9-11, blast design has become a well-sought after design not only for federal and military buildings but also for other high risk buildings being a life safety issue. Facades are the barriers between the blast and the structure. De¬signing a façade for the safety of the occupants has become now more important. As nature has its own optimizing laws, evolving a set of strategies that have sustained over 3.8 billion years, Biomimicry can be used as a design strategy for com¬plex human problems. This thesis explores the options of applying the biomimetic principles of spider webs on the design of a façade exposed to blast loads. Subject spider webcable net facadeblast loading To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:211ee221-a80c-444a-b448-5d62c5f6f987 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2014 Karapanou, A. Files PDF A.Karapanou_FinalThesisReport1.pdf 17.71 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:211ee221-a80c-444a-b448-5d62c5f6f987/datastream/OBJ/view