Analytical ruled surfaces and their complete classification

Abstract

The aim of the work - to give the possibility to expand mind of designers and architects projecting structures in the form of traditional and non-canonical ruled surfaces. These surfaces have several unquestionable advantages with a point of view of their forming, designing, and making of factory-made goods and erections in the form of ruled surfaces and analysis methods. Methods. Choosing ruled surfaces for classification, one can use methods of their determination by vector, parametrical, implicit, and in explicit equations. Only analytical ruled surfaces are considered which were examined and presented in scientific-and-technical literature. Results. All known at present time ruled surfaces are given in a graphic form. The determinations of some little known ruled surfaces are presented in a paper. The original sources, where these surfaces are examined or their application in real structures and erections are considered, or methods of determination of stress-strain state in thin-walled shells with ruled middle surfaces are presented, are given in references.

Keywords

• analytical surface
• oblique ruled surface
• developable surface
• classification of surfaces
• differential geometry