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Elsevier, Computers and Structures, (161), p. 55-63, 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2015.09.002

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Quasi-harmonic Bézier approximation of minimal surfaces for finding forms of structural membranes

Journal article published in 2015 by Gang Xu, Timon Rabczuk, Erhan Güler, Xiangyang Wu, Qing Wu, Kin-Chuen Hui, Guozhao Wang
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Abstract

Numerical approximation of minimal surface is an important problem in the form-finding of structural membranes. In this paper, we present a novel approach to construct minimal surface from a given boundary by quasi-harmonic Bezier approximation. A new energy functional called quasiharmonic energy functional is proposed as the objective function to obtain the quasi-harmonic Bezier surface from given boundaries. The quasi-harmonic mask is also proposed to generate the approximate minimal surfaces by solving a sparse linear system. The efficiency of the proposed methods is illustrated by several modeling examples.