Print Email Facebook Twitter How to understand ' Structural Morphology'? Title How to understand ' Structural Morphology'? Author Li, Q. (TU Delft Structural Design & Mechanics; Harbin Institute of Technology) Borgart, A. (TU Delft Structural Design & Mechanics) Wu, Y (Harbin Institute of Technology) Date 2016 Abstract Due to its wide range of related research contents and diversified research approaches, the term ‘Structural Morphology’ has not been clearly defined by the Structural Morphology Group (SMG) of the International Association for Shells and Spatial Structures (IASS), founded in 1991, although some scholars have given their own viewpoints. This paper presents a different way to understand the meaning of “Structural Morphology” and its connotations. Nowadays, numerical techniques have become the most important means to do research in the field of structural engineering, and they can assist in the design, analysis and optimization of structures by handling a large number of parameters. In this paper, we present a common conceptual scheme for these numerical analysis methods. The scheme classifies the parameters of the initial structural system into five categories and, with the aid of numerical analysis methods, leads to the structural performance of the final structure. Two simple numerical examples are shown to verify the rationality of the scheme. On this basis, a conceptual formula to describe 'Structural Morphology' is proposed, which contains the whole numerical analysis process, shows the goal of structural morphology and also suggests a suitable methodology. Moreover, since numerical form-finding and computational morphogenesis have become two main research foci of structural morphology, a basic introduction, methodology and some achievements related to each research focus are presented in this paper. Subject structural morphologyparametersstructural performancestructural formmechanical behaviornumerical form-findingcomputational morphogenesis To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fc58f67c-e2d1-4b5e-ac4d-3ffa8c8fe205 DOI https://doi.org/10.20898/j.iass.2016.188.765 ISSN 1028-365X Source Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 57 (2), 145-158 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 Q. Li, A. Borgart, Y Wu Files PDF J.IASS_Qingpeng_Li.pdf 1.89 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fc58f67c-e2d1-4b5e-ac4d-3ffa8c8fe205/datastream/OBJ/view