Given this structure, these collagens provide significant tensile strength and a structural frame for tissues, including bone, skin, blood vessels and intestine.
"We wanted the structure to be poured-in-place concrete," Tsien said, instead of a more common steel structural frame, "so the surface you walk on is the structure, the surface you see is the structure".
The structural frame is formed by 3D printing as a core-shell structure, which effectively converts external vibrations into continuous sliding motion.
This type of mechanism depends on the geometrical and mechanical features of the structure, but it is substantially affected by the constraints along the structural frame.
(Spandrel beams connect the columns at the outer edge of the structural frame).
Its delicate structural frame is a sparkling counterpart to the museum's 1893 Beaux Arts building.
On a clear afternoon you can catch faint glimpses through the structural frame of clouds drifting by overhead.
Its translucent fabric skin is stretched over a structural frame of steel beams and tension cables that resembles scaffolding.
The United States military has taken a similar approach by building metal antennas into the structural frame of airplanes.
Namely, the Burj Khalifa is primarily residential and its structural frame is reinforced concrete.
Curtain wall, Nonbearing wall of glass, metal, or masonry attached to a building's exterior structural frame.
