Masoud Akbarzadeh is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in Structures and Building Technologies and the Director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL). In 2020, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to extend the methods of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic Statics for Education, Design, and Optimization of High-Performance Structures.

• Preface; A brief history; 1. Equilibrium of a single node; 2. Equilibrium of a system of forces; 3. Compression-only form finding; 4. Designing the force diagrams for articulated compression only forms; 5. Systems with combined tensions and compression; 6. Geometric degrees of freedom and statically indeterminate funicular networks; 7. Algebraic formulation for polyhedral graphic statics; 8. Broader applications of polyhedral graphic statics.

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Masoud Akbarzadeh is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in Structures and Building Technologies and the Director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL). In 2020, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to extend the methods of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic Statics for Education, Design, and Optimization of High-Performance Structures.

• Preface; A brief history; 1. Equilibrium of a single node; 2. Equilibrium of a system of forces; 3. Compression-only form finding; 4. Designing the force diagrams for articulated compression only forms; 5. Systems with combined tensions and compression; 6. Geometric degrees of freedom and statically indeterminate funicular networks; 7. Algebraic formulation for polyhedral graphic statics; 8. Broader applications of polyhedral graphic statics.

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Masoud Akbarzadeh is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in Structures and Building Technologies and the Director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL). In 2020, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to extend the methods of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic Statics for Education, Design, and Optimization of High-Performance Structures.

• Preface; A brief history; 1. Equilibrium of a single node; 2. Equilibrium of a system of forces; 3. Compression-only form finding; 4. Designing the force diagrams for articulated compression only forms; 5. Systems with combined tensions and compression; 6. Geometric degrees of freedom and statically indeterminate funicular networks; 7. Algebraic formulation for polyhedral graphic statics; 8. Broader applications of polyhedral graphic statics.

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