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Dutch term or phrase:	bolverbinding
English translation:	spherical node
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14:31 Nov 26, 2005

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Dutch term or phrase: bolverbinding

Can anyone help with "bolverbindingen"? Mentioned in connection with the Olympic football stadium in Crete. Can't find much technical info under the name Pagkriti, though there do seem to be several versions of the name e.g. Pankrition, Pankritio, Pagkritio.

Pagkriti Stadion in Kreta (GR) - klant: Varitec Engineering (CH)

Het Olympisch voetbalstadion in Iraklio, dat gebouwd werd ter gelegenheid van de Olympische spelen van 2004, biedt plaats aan meer dan 33 000 toeschouwers. Het 182 meter lange complex werd voorzien van een stalen dakconstructie die in totaal meer dan 700 ton weegt en uit 6470 elementen bestaat. Voor de 1600 stalen bolverbindingen met negen verschillende diameters waren in totaal 340 verschillende knoop-geometrieën nodig.

Found a couple of pictures (different project) so you can see exactly what a bolverbinding looks like:
http://www.kaal.nl/K/nl/pages/sub_projecten_radarmast.htm

This Varitec site (in German) has some good pics of the stadium:
http://www.scia-online.com/WWW/WebSiteUS.nsf/4e74abd2737567f...
Although it's in German, the site does mention ball joints and connectors, suggesting that "ball joint connectors" might be the bolverbindingen, but can't find much to support that.

MoiraB KudoZ activity Questions: 638 (none open) (17 closed without grading) Answers: 468
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spherical node

Explanation:
the connectors would then be the rods between the nodes

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Harry Borsje
Netherlands
Local time: 23:22

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That'll do nicely! Thanks.
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spherical node

Harry Borsje

.... bipods ....

Maaike van Vlijmen

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.... bipods ....

Explanation:
Hi, I immediately thought of the Atomium in Brussels...on the sites I found they spoke of "bipods", which isn't exactly the right term I believe, but maybe it's possible to add something else to make it exact, like "bipods of balls and tubes"...I don't know. Maybe you have a better idea...goodluck!

Maaike van Vlijmen
United Kingdom
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spherical node

Explanation:
the connectors would then be the rods between the nodes

Reference: http://www.bertsche-office.de/uk/General/G-Spherical_node/g-...

Harry Borsje
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That'll do nicely! Thanks.

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