Table Of ContentlASSE-lASS 2011 London Symposium Report
TaIler, Longer, Lighter
meeting growing demand with Iimited resources
The 35thAnnual Symposium of IABSE
The 52nd Annual Symposium of lASS
and incorporating
The 6th International Conference on Space Structures
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering IABSE
International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures lASS
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Keynote Lectures
Keynotepaper-Taller
BillBaker 2
Keynotepaper-Langer
LarsHauge 8
Keynotepaper-Lighter
MamoruKawaguchi 18
Invitedpapers from lABSEWorkingCommissions and lASS WorkingGroups
Ontheassessmentofrobustness -astatusandan outlook
MichaelFABER, Harikrishna NARASIMHAN 28
Theoreticalframeworkfor RobustnessEvaluation
lohnS0RERNSEN 29
ProbabilisticModelling ofexposure conditionsforrobustness
TonVROUWENVELDER 30
ModellingofFailure Consequencesfor Robustness Evaluation
MariosCHRYSSANTHOPOULOS,Victoria JANSSENS, BouIentIMAM 31
StructuralRobustnessDesign inEurocodes
1.0.Gerard CANISIUS 32
DesignCritique - StepsTowards Structural Qualityin Engineering
AnnetteBÖGLE 33
ConceptualPlanning by the StructuralEngineer
AndreasGIANOLI 34
TheRelationshipbetweenStructuralTechnology andDesign Philosophyon Building
DesigninJapan
TomKOBORI 35
Taller, Longet; Lighter;...Faster?
Joanne MCCALL,WilliamANDERSON 36
NewBridgeovera UNESCO WorldHeritage Site
WiIIiamANDERSON, SylvainMONTMINY, Jack AJRAB, Marcel DELPH,
AbdoINOURAEYAN 37
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Strengtheningofpre-stressedI-roof-beams withexternalpost-tension
I1kkaVILONEN, RalfLINDBERG, NinaVELLING 38
Structural Types3D Tensor(STT)
loseROMO 39
RealizationofSam Bridge Project inBelgrade (Serbia)
Bratislav STIPANIC, lohnCOLEMAN,Raymond HAWES, Zoran RUBINJONI,
Zoran FLORIC,DraskoMISULIC 40
Parametrie CFD analysisofanaturaldraft wet-coolingtowerwith isotropiefill
Hanno REUTER, Detlev KRÖGER 41
Monitoring and Life Cycle Management ofCooling Towers
Joachirn MEYER, Tobias PFISTER 42
State-of-the-artofStructuralDesign ofCooling and Solar Updraft Towers
Reinhard HARTE,Wilfried KRAETZIG 43
Non-conventional wind loading onultra-high towers inSolar UpdraftPower Plants
ClaudioBORRI,FrancescaLUPI, Hans-Juergen NIEMANN, Udo PEIL 44
Local FailureofCoolingand Solar UpdraftTowers
Takashi HARA 45
Applicabilityofthe BSSApproach toSolarChimneys
Ihsan MUNGAN 46
Tailoredconcrete conceptsfor very tall cooling and solarupdrafttowers
LudgerLOHAUS, YaredABEBE 47
Heinz Isler: FromDelfttoPrincetonand Beyond
David BILLINGTON 48
Heinz Isler Shells -ThePriorityofForm
Ekkehard RAMM 49
WorkingwithHein; Isler
Michael BALZ 50
Heinz Isler: Shellsfor two churches
lohnCHILTON 51
SKIN: Bio-membranesinBuildings
Nie GOLDSMITH 52
New retractable roofsolutionsforsports stadia
KnutGÖPPERT, Haspel LORENZ, Paech CHRISTOPH 53
The Natural ForceDensityMethod
Ruy Marcelo PAULETTI 54
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TheStress-Strain-Behaviourfor Coated OrthotropicFabrics and itsInfluence
ontheAnalysis ofprestressedMembranes, anApproach
HeidrunBÖGNER-BALZ, RainerBLUM,Jochen KÖHNLEIN,
KlausREIMANN 55
Round-robinbiaxialtensile testing ofarchitecturalcoatedfabrics
PaoloBECCARELLI, Benjamin BRIDGENS, Cedric GALLlOT, PeterGOSLING,
BemdSTIMPFLE,AlessandraZANELLI 56
Seismicdesign ofmetal spatialstructuresinJapan
OsamuHOSOZAWA, Taro MIZUTANI 57
SeismicRetrofitwith aNew TypeofBuckling RestrainedBrace
TakanoriOYA,Takuhide SUGlYAMA,Takashi FUKASAWA, Shoji NAKAZAWA,
MamoruIWATA, ShiroKATO 58
Bucklingand Seismic ResponseofGrid Shell with CylindricalJoints
ToruTAKEUCHI, Hiroki NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki OGAWA 59
Vibration ControlTestsofArch Structures with Piezoelectric Films
Ken'IchiMINOWA, Tomohiko KUMAGAI, Ryoko KUWAHARA, Toshiyuki OGAWA ....60
StateofArts ofSeismicAnalysisofSpatial LatticedStructures
YongfengLUO, HaifengLI, XiaonongGUO, Wang LEI, Jie BAI 61
DynamicBehaviourofthe Steel Structurefora 130mTallObservation Tower
CarlosLAZARO,Alberto DOMINGO,FranciscoPALACIOS 62
Vibration TestofTMDwithInitial Displacementunder Impulse Loading
SusumuYOSHINAKA, Shuji NISHIYAMA,Yoshiya TANIGUCHI 63
EffectofYieldingofRoofMembers on Seismic ResponsesofLattice Dome
TomohikoKUMAGAI,Tom TAKEUCHI,ToshiyukiOGAWA 64
Bucklingand Seismic Response Performance ofFreeFormLattice Shells
ShiroKATO,Shoji NAKAZAWA, YujiTAKIUCHI 65
PropagationofLocalCollapse inDouble LayerTensegritySystems
BehzadSHEKASTEHBAND, Karim ABEDI, MohammadRezaCHENAGHLOU 66
ResearchonShell ElementModelling ofSingle-layerCylindricalReticulatedShell
witliWeldedHollow SphericalJoints
Su-DuoXUE, Ning WANG, Xiong-Yan LI 67
ANumerical Strategyfor Searching theInitial Critical PointofInstability
ofSpatialStructures
YongfengLUO, YiWANG, XiaonongGUO 68
EvaluationofDynamicDuctilityIndex ofaSchool Gymnasium
ShojiNAKAZAWA, Shiro KATO,ToshimasaYANAGISAWA 69
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Damping Characteristics ofTwoSteel HPShells
Kiyoshi SHINGU, Kiyotoshi HIRATSUKA, Masaki YUKAWA, KazuoMITSUI,
Takayuki KAWASHIMA, Norio KONDO, Kiyoshi OGAWA,Toshihiro IRIE 70
Limit StateofDouble-layerLattice Domes ofDifferentMemberLayouts
ChongbingYAN,YoshiyaTANIGUCHI, SusumuYOSHINAKA 71
Design Estimation Method ofBuckling Loadand theAssociatedModefor aSingle Layer
Lattice Dome RoofwithSquare Plan
SeishiYAMADA,YukihiroMATSUMOTO, Jun SAKAMOTO,James CROLL 72
Innovative Timber Constructions
YvesWEINAND 73
AIDIMA'sR&D FORUM building inPaterna, Valencia.New technologies
intimber structures
Jose-ManaVELASCO, ManuelGARCIA, Kiyan HEDJRI, MiguelangelABIAN, Antoni
GOMILA, Daniel ALCAIDE 74
SantJuliadeLoria bridge inAndorra. Structural design.
lose-MariaVELASCO,Antoni GOMILA, Daniel ALCAIDE, Luis MAVARE,
Jordi BERNAT,LamaLABRADOR 75
TheSplash sculpture structure inExpo-Zaragoza, Spain
Jose-ManaVELASCO,Antoni GOMILA 76
Curved FoldedPlateTimberStructures
Hani BURI, Ivo STOTZ,YvesWEfNAND 77
Analysisofrackingperformanceofsteel-timberhybrid lateral resistant system
Zheng LI, MinjuanHE 78
PushoverAnalysison WoodFramed Construction basedonRefined Three-Dimensional
FiniteElement Model
Haibei XIONG, Jiahua KANG, Xilin LU 79
Geometricaldescription andstructuralanalysis ofamodulartimber structure
Sina NABAEI,YvesWEINAND, OlivierBAVEREL 80
New Deployable Structure and Its RigidBody Motion
Masao TAKATSUKA, Hiroshi OHMORI 81
Stability ofLatticedShell with Uniform-Length Hexagonal Grid
Makoto OHSAKI, NaoyaASHIYA, Shinya MATSUMOTO, ShinnosukeFUJITA 82
Structural Modelling ofHexagonal Grids AppliedtoCarbon Nanotubes
Carlos LAZARO, Rafael MERLI, SalvadorMONLEON,AlbertoDOMINGO 83
Afinite-difference approximation toNewton'sMethod Jacobian Matrices
Ruy MarceloPAULETTI,EdgardALMEIDA-NETO 84
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TrussOptimization Using GeneticAlgorithm Considering UltimateResistance
HuaguoWANG,HiroshiOHMORI 85
Parameterfree shapeoptimizationofshellstructures using stress response
SaartjeARNOUT, MatthiasFIRL, Kai-Uwe BLETZINGER 86
AdvancedTopology Optimisation Technique with MeshlessMethod using CellularAutomata
forPlanarStructures
Chang-KyeLEE, Sang-JinLEE 87
BuildingBig andBeautiful:A PrefabricatedTimberDesign Case Study
GavinWHITE 88
AFrameworkforComparing Form Finding Methods
OiederikVEENENDAAL, Philippe BLOCK 89
All-glassshellscalemodelsmade with an adjustable mould
lanBEUS,Arno PRONK,WillemSCHUURMANS,Thomas BLANCKE 90
Computationandgeometry in structuraldesign andanalysis:proposalforthe Computation
andGeometryWG15studygroup
RoelVANDE STRAAT, Paul SHEPHERD, Peter WINSLOW 91
CurvedCrease Folding -aReviewonArt, DesignandMathematics
ErikOEMAINE, MartinDEMAINE, Duks KOSCHITZ, TomohiroTACHI 92
ResearchoftheStudyGroup Transformable Structures
NielsOETEMMERMAN 93
MiloKetchum Jr. andthe Exploration ofForm
EdmondSAUKUS, David BILUNGTON, PeterLAURSEN 94
BernardLaffaille, Nicolas Esquillan, Two French Pioneers
ReneMOTRO, BernardMAURIN 95
SeismicAnalysisforan historicalinfilledRCframe building inVenice
ElenaSTIEVANIN, FrancescaDA PORTO, ClaudioMODENA 96
AModern WoodStructure ofHoryuji-Kondo /300yearsago
TsugunoriKIMOTO, Masahiro INAYAMA 97
ChangingTimes as a Catalystfor Opportunities
MatthysLEVY 98
Towards EnvironmentalCompatibility in the BuildingIndustry
LudevitVEGH 99
Logicand Form:From Shells toNonstandardStructures
HaraldKLOFT 100
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Optimizing Shapes ofStructuresfor Generating Energy
PetrVEGH 10
FailureLimits ofShallow Grid Shells: Thephysicsbehindtheconceptofequivalentthickness
andnumericalvalidation.
SamarMALEK, John OCHSENDORF,Tomasz WIERZBICKI 10
Self-forming, fabric-formed, funicularshells and molds
Mark WEST, Ronnie ARAYA,FariborzHASHEMIAN, Neil PRAKASH 101
TestingandAnalysisofGeogrid-reinforcedThin-shellMasonry
Matthew DEJONG, Michael RAMAGE, BemardTRAVERS, Sarah TERRY 104
Design and Construction ofGeogrid-reinforcedThin-shellMasonry
Michael RAMAGE, Matthew DEJONG 105
Efficientand Expressive Thin-tile Vaultingusing Cardboard Formwork
Lara DAVIS,MatthiasRIPPMANN, TomPAWLOFSKY, PhilippeBLOCK 106·
Digital Stereotomy: Voussoirgeometryforfreeform masonry-like vaults informed
bystructuralandfabrication constraints
Matthias RIPPMANN, Philippe BLOCK 107
Closest-Fit, Compression-OnlySolutionsfor FreeformShells
PhilippeBLOCK, Lorenz LACHAUER 108
Bio-CementedSandstone Bricks
Daniel BERNARDI, BrinaMORTENSEN, Jason DEJONG, MatthewDEJONG 109
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A CombinedComputationaland CodifiedApproach toStructuralWindEngineering
Graham KNAPP,Lindsay MALCOLM,Jonathan ROYNON 112
Time-Domain AnalysisoftheBuffetingResponseofLong-Span Bridges
Matteo SEGNINI, ClaudioMANNINI, Gianni BARTOLl, ClaudioBORRI 113
Damage Detection ofaLong-span Bridge byWind-inducedResponse
Thang NGUYEN DANH, HitoshiYAMADA, Hiroshi KATSUCHI, Eiichi SASAKI 114
Effects ofCableDamping andMotion ofLong Span Cable StayedBridge
byGalerkin Method
San KHAING, HitoshiYAMADA, Hiroshi KATSUCHI, Eiichi SASAKI 115
Aeradynamiccharacteristicsofta1Ibuildingswith various shapes
YukioTAMURA, Yongchul KIM, Kazuo OHTAKE, Masayoshi NAKAI,
HideyukiTANAKA 116
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Structurallifetimepredictionbasedon monitoredstructuralresponses ofa windenergy
converter
StefanLACHMANN, XiangqinLIU, Karl LEIMBACH, RuedigerHOEFFER,
DietrichHARTMANN, Matthias BAITSCH 117
UniversalEquivalent StaticWindLoadsforRoofStructures
YukioTAMURA,Akira KATSUMURA, Osamu NAKAMURA 118
TheMessinaStrait Crossing: GeneralOutline ofthe Project
PietroCIUCCI,Giuseppe FlAMMENGHI 119
MessinaBridge -Design Concept,[rom earlyDaystoPresent
FabioBRANCALEONI, Giorgio DIANA, GiuseppeFlAMMENGHI, Micheie
JAMIOLKOWSKI, Massimo MARCONI, Enzo VULLO 120
MessinaStraitBridge -SuspendedDeck
HenrikPOLK,LarsJENSEN, Kenneth SERZAN,Yasutsugu YAMASAKI,
SerenLAUSTEN,Dyab KHAZEM 121
MessinaStraitBridge -Suspension System
ChrisWALKER,lan FlRTH, Yasutsugu YAMASAKI 122
MessinaStraitBridge - Towers
ChristopherSCOLLARD,CharlesKING, Matthew KLEYMANN,YasutsuguYAMASAKI 123
MessinaStraitBridge-BridgeArticulation
HenningPeerJENSEN, Seren LAUSTEN, Lars S0RENSEN, SandroORDANINI 124
Aerodynamics oftheMessina BridgeProgettoDefinitivo
AllanLARSEN, Giorgio DIANA, SannePOULIN,AlbertoZASSO 125
MessinaBridge - SeismicResponseandDesign
FabioBRANCALEONI, Ezio FACCIOLI, ChristopherSCOLLARD, C1audioVALENTE,
SteveZHU 126
MessinaBridge -Studyofthe SeismicBehaviouroftheFoundation System
LuigiCALLISTO, Alessandro FLORA,MicheieJAMIOLKOWSKI,
SebastianoRAMPELLO, GiampieroRUSSO, Carlo VIGGIANI, GiuliaVIGGIANI 127
MessinaStrait Bridge -Runability, Safety andComfortAnalysis
JacobEgedeANDERSEN, PerANDERSEN, Giancarlo BORDONARO,
StefanoGABRIELE, FedericoCHELI 128
MessinaBridge -Erection Procedure andtheir Structurallssues
VictorCABELLO, Pietro MARCHESELLI, SandroORDANINI, Ettore PAGANI,
YasutsuguYAMASAKI, Lars S0RENSEN 129
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Messina Bridge -ReliabilityBasedInspectionandReliability Centred
Maintenance -The Challenge
Poul LINNEBERG, Daniel KRISTOFFERSEN, ErikANDERSEN 13
Messina Bridge -StructuralHealth Monitaring System
Simon DE NEUMANN, Merit ENCKELL, Jacob Egede ANDERSEN, Enzo VULLO ..... 13
ForthReplacementCrossing - ProjectBackgroundand Feasibility
David CLIMIE, LawrenceSHACKMAN,Billy MINTO 13
ForthRoad Bridge -Main Cables andAnchorages
Barry COLFORD 133
ForthReplacementCrossing -ConceptDesign
Naeem HUSSAIN, MattCARTER,Steve KITE, Billy MINTO 134
FurthReplacementCrossing -Design Criteria
Steve KITE, MattCARTER, Martin HOOTON, Billy MINTO 135
ForthReplacementCrossing -Specimen Design andConstruction Planning
MattCARTER, Steve KITE, Martin KIRK, RichardHORNBY 136
ForthReplacementCrossing -TenderDesign
Peter CURRAN,John ELNEGAARD,ArminPATCH,lan BOLTON, Iain GOLDIE 137
ForthReplacementCrossing -Construction Proposals
CarsonCARNEY, DamianNOWAK 138
StructuralAnalysisand Design ofShanghaiTower
Jiernin DING, SiCHAO, Zhijun HE, HongleiWU 139
Performance-basedSeismic Design Principles and ObjectivesofShanghaiTower
HuanjunHANG, Xilin LU, XinZHAO 140
Seismic Performance Evaluation ofShanghai TowerunderRareEarthquakes
Jiemin DING, SiCHAO, Honglei WU, ZhijunHE, XinZHAO 141
StructuralStabilityAnalysisofShanghaiTower
Tiantian LU, XinZHAO, Jiemin DING, SiCHAO,YingZHOU 142
ShorteningAnalysisofCore Wallsand SuperColumnsforShanghaiTower
XinZHAO, JieminDING,YiminZHENG, Si CHAO, Xiaoyu QI,YingZHOU 143
WindTunnelStudies ofShanghai Towerfor Structuraldesign
XinZHAO, Huahua SUN, JieminDING, ZhenshanLIN 144
StructuralPerformanceMonitoring During Construction andFrameWork
for Life-cycleMonitoring
QilinZHANG, Lu CHEN, Xin ZHAO, KeLEI, Haibei XIONG 145
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ExperimentalResearch on KeyJoints ofShanghai Tower
BinWANG,XianzhongZHAO, YiyiCHEN 146
StructuralDesign ofShanghai TowerforSeismicactionandWind
Loading- AComparative Study
XinZHAO,ZhenshanLIN, HuahuaSUN, Jiemin DING, SiCHAO,YingZHOU 147
Shakingtablemodel testofthe whole structureofShanghai Tower
XilinLU,YuanjunMAO,WenshengLU, Huanjun HANG 148
FloorResponse BasedEarthquakeActionMechanism andSeismic DemandofCurtain
WallSystemofShanghai Tower
WenshengLU,BaofengHUANG, LinaCAO, Xin ZHAO, Xilin LU 149
Analysis&Methods
HigherModes ofYibration inResponseofSuper-tall BuildingstoWind
StefanoCAMMELLI,TomWYATT 152
ANewFrontierinModern Architecture: Optimal StructuralTopologies
AlessandroBEGHINI, LaurenSTROMBERG,WilliamBAKER, Glaucio PAULINO,
ArkadiuszMAZUREK 153
AnalysisofWind-inducedResponsesofaLarge-scaleMembrane Structure
XuanyiZHOU, ZhihuiHAN, MingGU, Peng HUANG,YongQUAN 154
DynamicResponseofTallTimber BuildingstoWindLoad
ThomasREYNOLDS, Richard HARRIS,Wen-ShaoCHANG 155
Performance-basedDesign ofTallandLongspan Structures
KouroshKAYVANI 156
Activevibration control -A new approach to buildextremelylightbridges
AchimBLEICHER 157
BridgingCapacity andAerodynamicChallenge ofLong-Span Suspension Bridges
YongxinYANG,Yaojun GE 158
AeroelasticAnalysisofa Bridge DeckSection with the TotalFormofFlutterDerivatives
KiljeJUNG, Hae Sung LEE, Ho-Kyung KIM, Keun Won LYU 159
Infiuenceofspatialvariabilityofgroundmotionon responseoflarge concrete
archbridges
MartaSAVOR,DamirLAZAREVIC,JosipATALIC 160
Theeffectofmodalparameteruncertaintieson the vibration serviceabilityassessment
offootbridges
PeterVANDEN BROECK, Katrien VANNIMMEN, BramGEZELS, GuidoDE ROECK .. 161
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