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The work of a Ph.D. student at Princeton University on lamellar structures at seismic loads co-led by a professor at the UPCT School of Roads and Mines has received the Hangai Prize.
This prestigious award is granted by the International Association of Space Structures and Structures (IASS) and recognizes the work of researchers under the age of 30.
The winning work by Tim Michiels and entitled 'Parametric study of masonry shells found for seismic loading' studies how to obtain the forms of laminar structures of materials not reinforced with steel, such as concrete in mass, ashlar or even adobe, to resist adequately the actions due to the earthquake, fundamentally horizontal.
Structures achieved in this way are more effective, economical and environmentally sustainable.
Co-authors of the study include its directors, Professor Sigrid Adriaenssens, director of Form Finding Lab at Princeton University and Professor Juan José Jorquera Lucerga, Department of Civil Engineering and director of the research group New Structural Typologies (NEST) of the UPCT.
The award recipient picked up his award at the IASS symposium held last week in Hamburg.
Source: UPCT
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