Trial design of a dome roof for an church

Abstract

The paper describes some construction solutions for a metalic dome roof of an orthodox church. The authors describe three alternative variants (with different structural diagrams) of designing its dome framework. The paper introduces ribbed ring-shaped, grid and webbed geodesic dome constructions which are aimed to be used in the same operation conditions. The researchers calculated structural design, strength, proportioning of members and weight index as well as geometrically arranged elements of each dome design structure. Then their general total economic parameters were compared.