Italian Workshop on 

Shell and Spatial Structures

Full length papers

Selected contributions to the workshop have been re-edited in a full-length format and undergone blind peer review process in order to be published on a special issue of Curved and Layered Structures.


Presentation of the special issue

Bertetto A. M., Gabriele S., Marmo F., Micheletti A., Shell and spatial structures: Between new developments and historical aspects

Shell and spatial structures: Between new developments and historical aspects

Lacidogna G., Scaramozzino D., Carpinteri A., Optimization of diagrid geometry based on the desirability function approach

Fenu L., Congiu E., Marano G.C., Briseghella B., Shell-supported footbridges

Ossola E., Brusa E., Sesana R., Geodesic domes for planetary exploration

Rizzo F., Demartino C., Pressure modes for hyperbolic paraboloid roofs

Carpinteri A., Lacidogna G., Scaramozzino D., Geometrically nonlinear behavior of lattice domes coupled with local Eulerian instability

Argento G.R., Gabriele S., Teresi L. Varano V., Target metric and shell shaping

Marmo F., ArchLab: a MATLAB tool for the Thrust Line Analysis of masonry arches

Piana G., De Biagi V., Chiaia B., Robustness of an airport double layer space truss roof

de Souza M. S. V., Pauletti R. M. O.,  An overview of the natural force density method and its implementation on an efficient parametric computational framework

Ermakova E., Rynkovskaya M., The use of shells in the architecture of the concert halls

Fraddosio A., Pavone G., Piccioni M. D., A novel method for determining the feasible integral self-stress states for tensegrity structures

Palmieri M., Giannetti I., Micheletti A., Floating-bending tensile-integrity structures

Lenticchia E., Manuello Bertetto A., Ceravolo R., AE propagation velocity calculation for stiffness estimation in Pier Luigi Nervi’s concrete structures

Venuti F., Influence of pattern anisotropy on the structural behaviour of free-edge single-layer gridshells

Spagnuolo S., Out-of-plane local mechanism analysis with finite element method

Vlachaki E., Liapi K. A., Folded surface elements coupled with planar scissor linkages: A novel hybrid type of deployable structures

Dragoljevic M., Viscuso S., Zanelli A., Data-driven design of deployable structures: Literature review and multi-criteria optimization approach

Mirabella Roberti G., Ruscica G., Paris V., From the herringbone dome by Sangallo to the Serlio floor of Emy (and beyond)

Gonzalez Meza E., The triangle grid, the evolution of layered shells since the beginning of the 19th century