Cases of Lightweight Structures for Polar Areas

• Main Authors: Pedreros, Jessica Fernandoy, Christ, Julian, Shepherd, Paul, Koss, Holger
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS ) 2017
• Subjects: Lightweight structures; Polar regions; Structural optimisation; Topology optimisation; Frame-supported membrane structure; Stochastic wind loading; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Glacier Union; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/5e2549f4-ade4-4a80-ace2-232b8ed27675

The paper focuses on what the authors call ‘Polar Lightweight Structures’. The first part presents a collection of lightweight structures (LWS) designed and built for Antarctic conditions, with the aim of demonstrating the diversity of approaches attempted by designers. The second part of the paper presents two studies where different computational methods were applied for the design of generic LWS based on the local conditions of two particular Polar locations; namely, the Arctic region and Glacier Union in the Antarctic plateau. Both studies were conducted independently with the aim of demonstrating the feasibility of employing LWS of larger dimensions/scale than currently seen in Polar settings.