Friday 25 January 2019, at 13.00, The Technical University of Denmark, Building 303A, Auditorium 45
Principal supervisor: Professor Steen Schyum Markvorsen
Co-supervisor: Professor Jakob Bohr
Examiners:
Associate Professor David Brander Perez, DTU Compute
Professor Vicente Palmer Andreu, Universitat Jaume I
Professor Konrad Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin
Chairman: Associate Professor Jens Gravesen, DTU Compute
Summary: In this thesis we are concerned with developable surfaces, that is, surfaces that can
be produced by bending without stretching or compressing a planar thin sheet
of
bendable material. This is a classical family of surfaces, which has been extensively
studied in the past and
which
has an important number of modern applications within
architecture
(e.g.,
Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall)
, cartography, and
manufacturing.
In particular, we present a novel method for approximating an arbitrary (doubly-curved) surface S
by means of developable surfaces, each
one of which is
tangential
to S along a prescribed curve. Some of the results obtained are then generalized
to
more abstract higher-dimensional settings.
One can foresee many possible applications in the future, from solar cells
configurations to design of bridges and buildings, manufacturing
of micro devices,
and perhaps even garnishing
of prepared food.
READ MORE about this thesis in DTU Orbit.
A copy of the PhD thesis is available for reading at the department.
Everyone is welcome.