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SUMMARY:Automated building structural design? - Dr Manuel Davila -  Resear
 ch Associate Structures Group
DTSTART:20150213T150000Z
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CONTACT:Lorna Everett
DESCRIPTION:It is widely acknowledge that by improving the building design
  process\, its outcomes will improve as well. Therefore research efforts h
 ave been done to improve and to aid in the building design process. The ad
 vent of computers have revolutionize the Architecture\, Engineering\, and 
 Construction (AEC) area\; however\, computers have been used mostly to inc
 rease productivity and to facilitate information exchange\, but the buildi
 ng design process has remained essentially the same. \nThe talk presents a
  research project that attempts to automate a simplified building design p
 rocess by using existing and newly developed computational methods. The ob
 jective of the project is to aid the building design process by providing 
 evaluated and optimised structural design variants of buildings in a syste
 matic and automated manner\, for which four approaches or strategies have 
 been implemented.\nThe implemented strategies were internally validated by
  performing sensitivity analyses to ensure that their procedures performed
  consistently\; and they were externally validated to ensure that their re
 sults are transferable by processing generic buildings of 3\, 8\, and 18 l
 evels. The implemented strategies are able to process entire buildings (in
 stead of structural elements only)\, they prescribe optimal type\, shape\,
  and location of structural elements. Their main limitation is that the on
 ly consider structural engineering aspects\; nevertheless they provide rel
 evant structural engineering feedback at early stages of the building desi
 gn process.\n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR5
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