Refereed Journal Publications

Segal, E. M., Chao, A., Ramsburg, L., and Draper, P. (2021). “A Pavilion Made from Scrap Acrylic and Physically Form-Found at Full Scale.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 62(3), 223-226, doi: 10.20898/j.iass.2021.002.

Segal, E. M., Elkowitz, L., and Belitsis, N. “A Method for Rapidly Deploying Suspended Footbridges.” (2020). Structural Engineering International, 31(3), 357-367, doi: 10.1080/10168664.2020.1777617.

Segal, E. M., Ramsburg, L., Draper, J., Thompson, S., Draper, P., Lindsay, B., Cheng, A. A. H., and Dowd, M. (2020). “Clay Cracking: A Natural Process Guiding a Design-to-Fabrication Method for Cast Aluminum Panels.” Technology | Architecture + Design, 4(1), 106-114, doi: 10.1080/24751448.2020.1705722.

Segal, E. M., Rhode-Barbarigos, L., Filomeno Coelho, R. D., and Adriaenssens, S. (2015). “An Automated Robust Design Methodology for Suspended Structures.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 56(4), 221-229. [previously published as a conference publication, republished with minor edits with permission from the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures]

Segal, E. M., Rhode-Barbarigos, L., Adriaenssens, S., and Filomeno Coelho, R. D. (2015). “Multi-Objective Optimization of Polyester-Rope and Steel-Rope Suspended Footbridges.” Engineering Structures, 99, 559-567, doi: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.05.024.

Segal, E. M. and Adriaenssens, S. (2013). “Norfolk Scope Arena: A US Dome with a Unique Configuration of Interior Ribs and Buttresses.” Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 54(2 and 3), 189-198. [previously published as a conference publication, republished with minor edits with permission from the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures]

Book Chapters

Draper, P. and Segal, E. M. (2012). “The Fourth ‘E’: The Environmental Dimension of Structure.” Festschrift Billington 2012, E. M. Hines, S. G. Buonopane, and M. E. M. Garlock, eds., International Network for Structural Art, 78-90. [portions were previously published as a conference publication, republished with permission from the Taylor and Francis Group]

Segal, E. M. and Billington, D. P. (2011). “Concrete Shell Roofs.” Fifty Years of Progress for Shell and Spatial Structures: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary Jubilee of the IASS (1959-2009), I. Mungan and J. F. Abel, eds., International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Madrid, Spain, 151-164.

Billington, D. P. and Segal, E. M. (2011). “The Decade 1960-1969: The First Ten Years of the IASS.” Fifty Years of Progress for Shell and Spatial Structures: In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary Jubilee of the IASS (1959-2009), I. Mungan and J. F. Abel, eds., International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Madrid, Spain, 13-32.

Segal, E. M., Garlock, M. E., and Billington, D. P. (2008). “Bacardí Rum Factory.” Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, and Structural Artist, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 154-167.

Conference Publications

(underline indicates the presenter(s), † indicates the paper was not presented orally, and * indicates the paper was displayed as a poster)

Segal, E. M., Ramsburg, L., Draper, J., Thompson, S., Draper, P., Lindsay, B., Dowd, M. and Cheng, A. A. H. (2022). “Cast & Place: A Cast Aluminum Pavilion Defined by Clay.” ICSA 2022: 5th International Conference on Structures & Architecture, Aalborg, Denmark.

Chao, A., Segal, E. M., Ramsburg, L., and Draper, P. (2022). “Reuse and Misuse with Heat Formed Acrylic.” ICSA 2022: 5th International Conference on Structures & Architecture, Aalborg, Denmark.

Cheng, A. A. H., Segal, E. M., Ramsburg, L. K., Draper, P., Draper, J., Thompson, S., Lindsay, B., and Dowd, M. (2022). “Cast & Place Pavilion: Transformation from Structure to Other Objects.” 2022 ACSA 110 Annual Meeting, Online, doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.37.

Elkowitz, L., Belitsis, N., and Segal, E. M. (2021). “Enhancements for Rapidly Deployable Suspended Footbridges.” Footbridge 2022, Madrid, Spain, doi: 10.24904/footbridge2022.015. [the paper was published in 2021 ahead of the conference in 2022]

Ramsburg, L., Chao, A., Segal, E. M., and Draper, P. (2019). “Design of Discretized Acrylic Shells with Heat-Induced Form-Finding.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium and Structural Membranes, Barcelona, Spain, 482-489.

Draper, P. and Segal, E. M. (2019). “Travel and the Structural Engineer.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium and Structural Membranes, Barcelona, Spain, 301-308.

Cheng, A. A. H., Segal, E. M., Draper, P., Ramsburg, L., Draper, J., Dowd, M., Thompson, S., and Lindsay, B. (2018). “Structural Design of Cast & Place, a Cast Aluminum Pavilion.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Cambridge, MA.

Segal, E. M. and Draper, P. (2018). “Travel and the Education of the Structural Engineer.” IV International Conference on Structural Engineering Education, Madrid, Spain.

Segal, E. M. (2018). “Physical Form-Finding: A Central Design Method in a Structural Engineering Studio Course.” IV International Conference on Structural Engineering Education, Madrid, Spain.

Segal, E. M., Woodward, R., Adriaenssens, S., and Zoli, T. P. (2017). “A Polyester-Rope Suspended Footbridge in Ait Bayoud, Morocco: Structural Analysis and Key Details.” Footbridge 2017, Berlin, Germany, doi: 10.24904/footbridge2017.09282.

Segal, E. M. and Adriaenssens, S. (2016). “Developing Design Skills in an Introductory Mechanics of Solids Course.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Fang, D. L., Adriaenssens, S., Bands, H. V., and Segal, E. M. (2015). “The Digital Engineering Classroom: Collaborative Structural Design Space and Supplementary Educational Material.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

†Segal, E. M., Rhode-Barbarigos, L., Adriaenssens, S., and Zoli, T.P. (2015). “Pedestrian Excitation of a Polyester-Rope Footbridge.” International Conference on Civil Engineering, Zakynthos, Greece.

Segal, E. M., Rhode-Barbarigos, L., Filomeno Coelho, R. D., and Adriaenssens, S. (2014). “An Automated Robust Design Methodology for Suspended Structures.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium-6th Latin American Symposium on Tension Structures, Brasília, Brazil.

Segal, E. M. and Adriaenssens, S. (2013). “Norfolk Scope Arena: A US Dome with a Unique Configuration of Interior Ribs and Buttresses.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Wroclaw, Poland.

†*Segal, E. M., Adriaenssens, S., Zoli, T. P., and Flory, J. F. (2013). “Polyester Rope, an Alternative to Steel Cable for Pedestrian Suspended Bridges.” Structural Engineering Institute Structures Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, 2837-2847.

Draper, P., Segal, E., and O’Connor, A. (2011). “Site and Sight: Examining the Forms of Hudson River Bridges.” 6th New York City Bridge Conference, New York, NY.

Draper, P., Segal, E. M., and Sicurelli, R. (2010). “Introductory Structural Engineering Education through Computational and Physical Model Building.” American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Louisville, KY.

Segal, E. M. (2009). “The Thin Concrete Shells of Jack Christiansen.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Valencia, Spain.

Segal, E. M., Garlock, M. E., and Billington, D. P. (2008). “A Comparative Analysis of the Bacardí Rum Factory and the Lambert-St. Louis Airport Terminal.” International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium, Acapulco, Mexico.

Other Publications

Segal, E. M. (2023). “Wood as Subject, Tool, and Medium.” New Perspectives: The Museum of Art at 60, exhibition catalog, Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY, 34.

Segal, E. M. (2022). Untitled essay on drawing. Drawing Matters, exhibition catalog, Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, NY, 20.

Ramsburg, L., Chao, A., Segal, E. M., and Draper, P. (2019). “Two Blue Shells: A Pavilion Made from Repurposed Acrylic.” Performance Plastics, August/September, 50.

Segal, E. M. (2018). “Eminent Structural Engineer: John V. ‘Jack’ Christiansen (1927-2017).” Structural Engineering International, 28(1), 90-92, doi: 10.1080/10168664.2018.1431442.

Theses

Segal, E. M. (2015). “Characterization of Polyester-Rope Suspended Footbridges.” Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Segal, E. M. (2008). “The Thin Concrete Shells of Jack Christiansen.” M.S.E. thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.