Print Email Facebook Twitter StructuralComponents: A client-server software architecture for FEM-based structural design exploration Title StructuralComponents: A client-server software architecture for FEM-based structural design exploration Author Van de Weerd, B.M. Contributor Rots, J.G. (mentor) Coenders, J.L. (mentor) Welleman, H. (mentor) Rolvink, A. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Programme Structural Mechanics Date 2013-06-11 Abstract StructuralComponents allows an engineer to quickly compose an early-stage structural concept and immediately analyse its performance. It follows the Conceptual Story method in an attempt to deal with imprecision and uncertainty. This thesis represents the third in a series of MSc theses on StructuralComponents, which as its general problem definition concerns providing more adequate early-stage design tools and dealing with imprecision and uncertainty. Both previous theses allowed the user to create a structural concept using the parametric and associative design paradigm. This thesis proposes a rewritten prototype implementation with similar functionality, and further incorporates new concepts. The thesis revolves around new specific problem statements: a limited adherence to formal research on design in engineering; a limited versatility of the super-element method for analysis; and the restriction of the previously plugin-based software architecture. To address theses, the three objectives for this thesis are: to bring the StructuralComponents concept in adherence with the characteristic design cycle and increase emphasis on the synthesis phase, i.e. the generation of design alternatives; to allow structural versatility beyond the previously used super-element method by developing a Finite Element Method Analysis engine; to remove external software and device dependencies by reimplementing the tool using a client– server software architecture. Subject structural designfinite element method To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6d95dd31-e1a7-41c9-abc9-49a8fcb80926 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2013 Van de Weerd, B.M. Files PDF 20130611-thesis.pdf 15.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6d95dd31-e1a7-41c9-abc9-49a8fcb80926/datastream/OBJ/view