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Advance Construction and Project Management Shell Structure

A shell structure is a thin curved membrane or slab, usually of reinforced concrete, that functions as both structure and covering. Shell structures gain their strength and rigidity from their thin, naturally curved forms, similar to an egg shell, nut shell, or tortoise shell. Shell structures can have single or double curvature. Single curvature shells are curved along one axis, like a barrel vault or conoid shell, while double curvature shells are part of a sphere or hyperboloid of revolution, like a dome.

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Advance Construction and Project Management Shell Structure

A shell structure is a thin curved membrane or slab, usually of reinforced concrete, that functions as both structure and covering. Shell structures gain their strength and rigidity from their thin, naturally curved forms, similar to an egg shell, nut shell, or tortoise shell. Shell structures can have single or double curvature. Single curvature shells are curved along one axis, like a barrel vault or conoid shell, while double curvature shells are part of a sphere or hyperboloid of revolution, like a dome.

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  • Shell Structure: Explains the concept of shell structures in architecture, detailing the thin curved forms used as both structure and covering.

• A SHELL STRUCTURE IS A THIN CURVED MEMBRANE OR SLAB USUALLY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE THAT FUNCTIONS BOTH AS

STRUCTURE AND COVERING. The term “shell” is used to describe the structures which possess strength and rigidity due to its thin, natural and
curved form such as shell of egg, a nut, human skull, and shell of tortoise. Shells occurring in nature
Disadvantages
Advantages :
Materials The terms single and double :
Used : curvature are used to distinguish SINGLE CURVATURE

SHELL STRUCTURE
the comparative rigidity of the SHELL Very Light form of
Shuttering problem
construction
two forms and complexity of Are curved on one linear axis
Timber and in the form of conoid Greater accuracy in
centering necessaryto construct shells BARREL VAULT CONOID Dead load can be formwork is
reduced required.
the shell form.
Steel
•DOUBLE Good labor and
sections Reduced the
CURVATURE SHELL thickness
supervision
necessary
Are either part of a sphere,
Concrete or a hyperboloid of Arch shapes can
revolution Rise of roof
HYPERBOLOID DOME span longer
PARABOLOID
Concrete shell roofs
Aesthetically it
are thin curved
TYPE OF SHELL STRUCTURE

FOLDED PLATESHELLS FORMSOF CURVATURE looks good.


reinforced FINISHES :
SPACES OF TRANSLATION :
membrane cast in
Surfacesof translationare generated by sliding ACTUAL CLAY,
situ over timber a plane curve along another plane curve, while BRICK, AND
The distinguishing feature of the
formwork. folded plate is the ease in forming keeping the orientationof the sliding curve
STONE VENEER

plane surfaces constant. GRANITE OR


MARBLE
The latter curve, on CLADDING
which the original curve
slides, is called the EXPOSED
AGGREGATE
BARRELVAULTS generator of the surface. FINISH

SAND BLASTED
Are perhaps the most useful of the FINISH
shell structures because they can
span up to 150 feet with a minimum
of material WHITE GLAZED
GRANITE TILES

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