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Chris Williams is a structural engineer who worked for Ove Arup and Partners prior to joining the Department.

He has a particular interest in the relationship between geometrical form and structural action as applied to bridges, shells, tension structures and tall buildings. This leads to the use of specially written computer programs to generate complex, often organic, forms for architectural and structural applications. His work has been applied in practice with architects and engineers including Foster and Partners, Richard Rogers Partnership, Branson Coates Architecture and Buro Happold.

His teaching interests include design project work with students of both architecture and engineering, structural analysis, computer programming and continuum mechanics.

Contact

c.j.k.williams@bath.ac.uk    Tel:01225 386818    Fax:01225 386691

Publications

2005  "Williams, C."
Computers and the Design and Construction Process
"In: Visions for the Future of Construction Education: Teaching Construction in a Changing World, Voyatzaki, Maria ed, European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture, ISBN 2-930301-18-X, pp. 30-39"

2004  "Williams, C."
Design by algorithm
"In: Digital Tectonics, Leach, N, Turnbull, D and Williams, C eds. Wiley, Chichester, UK. ISBN 0470857293, pp. 78-85."

2002  "Williams, C."
The analytic and numerical definition of the geometry of the British Museum Great Court Roof
"In: Mathematics & design 2001, Burry, M., Datta, S., Dawson, A., and Rollo, A. J (ed.), Geelong: Deakin University, pp. 434-440."

2001  "Nsugbe, E. and Williams, C."
The generation of bone-like forms using analytic functions of a complex variable
"Journal of Engineering Structures, 23, (1), pp. 22-28."

2000  "Williams, C."
The definiton of curved geometry for widespan structures
"In: Widespan roof structures, Barnes, M. and Dickson, M. (ed.): Thomas Telford, pp. 41-49."

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