winter semester | 2020/21
supervision | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Julian Lienhard
research associate | M.Sc. Seyed Mobin Moussavi
This thesis aims towards exploring a link between computational design, simulation and analysis, and assembly of complex structures through the digital detailing of form-fit connections
Digital detailing opens a new possibility to explore the design space of structural parts, organizing the manufacturing files, and assembly sequences through local geometric differentiation and coding. A practical approach is form-fit which has a high potential to be further explored in the steel connection detail.
One of the historic precedents isUSAF Aircraft Hangar, in which Konrad Wachsmann used the form-fit principle in connection system. The connection design showcases the potentials of using such a geometrical principle to enable connection of multiple elements together.
Using form-fit connection techniques, complex three-dimensional geometries can be generated from individual two-dimensional parts, which bear all geometric information of the global geometry in the local differentiation of the connection details.
