Modelos didáticos para exploração e compreensão estrutural

Abstract

The use of didactic elastic models should be a tool, in structural and architectural classes, that allows the understanding of the structural behavior in an intuitive and clear way. These models do not correspond to a direct translation of the structure in scale, nor to a precise and realistic reproduction of the structural action. Instead, they aim to be able to transmit the behavioral pattern through a conceptual logic that shows: how the structure reacts to the forces applied; how it works, support or failures to the internal tensions their parts are submitted to. However, as a learning tool, the models should be simple and flexible to allow an exploration of different situations and variants. Also, they should allow a creation of different structural possibilities for the same proposal. This work develops a theoretical discussion, with didactic purposes, and presents the preliminary results obtained in the quest of the development of a structural model that allows an open exploration and, at the same time, possesses a behavior that allows the visualization of the forces, deformations and the Influence of the shape on the structure behavior.