Re: G.G. Schierle Structure And Design
Brie Hoffler
Structural engineering is among the oldest types of engineering, dating back to the first instance of tree branches being lashed together with vines to make a shelter. Throughout recorded history, people have been designing and building increasingly larger and more sophisticated structures, from primitive huts to the International Space Station.
The names of the earliest practitioners of structural engineering are lost to antiquity. We will never know who designed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Parthenon or the aqueducts of the Roman Empire. Some of the latter-day practitioners in this field are known, although often not as well as the structures they designed. Prominent structural engineers include Gustave Eiffel (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty) and Eero Saarinen (Gateway Arch). However, most designs for famous modern structures such as the Large Hadron Collider and the James Webb Space Telescope are attributed to companies and government organizations.
This report was acknowledged by Prof.S.K. Thakar who is an authority on the subject in our country (INDIA). And my design thesis project was Design of Dasara Exhibition Pavilion, where concept of high technology of structures was employed in compliance with needs of the requirements.
My job involves analysis and design of space frames, tensile fabric, tension glazing, glass fin glazing and other specialty structures using physical models, computer models, finite element analysis programs such as ANSYS, DR, SAP2000, SPACEII, FEMAP and NASTRAN (software developed by NASA).