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Buildings paper: Methods for Creating Curved Shell Structures From Sheet Materials

The MDPI Buildings journal has published my paper on Methods for Creating Curved Shell Structures From Sheet Materials, this is the technique used to fabricate the Lotus sculpture at this year's Goodwood festival of Speed, here is the abstract:

This paper describes some methods for producing developable surfaces with practical applications for creating useful lightweight, rigid, jig-less and elegant structural forms from sheet materials. Multiple related techniques based on the same fundamental principle can be used to generate a variety of interesting singly curved and doubly curved shapes. The system requires a minimum of specialist software, and is described in simple steps that can be followed by the reader with access to basic 3D CAD tools.

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This document was last modified on 2013-02-05 12:46:12.
Bruno Postle