BUILDING STRUCTURE AS AUTOPOISIS SYSTEM

Abstract

The offered theoretical positions and experimental results are based on the working hypothesis that the concept of the products of a system, which self-organizes and is open to external influences will identify ways of the directed organization interconnected different-level concrete structures. The review of scientific and technical information made possible to analyze the characteristic features of composition and formation of the structure of building composites as complex organized materials, the methods of their model description, the expediency of using a structural approach in construction materials science, the causes for occurrence of the deformation of various types that accompany the hardening of composite materials, various operating conditions and ways of protecting products and constructions. This served as the basis for substantiating the need to present the building product as the system-object with the specific order of the structure. All levels of the product heterogeneities, including the product itself, are open complex systems, which are organizing themselves in autopoiesis mode. Such order of structure formation assumes a certain selectivity of the organization of the system while maintaining its openness to the influence of the environment. Factors of control may only initiate structural changes, but do not determine in what ways they will occur. The mechanisms of the structure organization at the selected levels of heterogeneities are qualitatively differing. Individual complex of processes and the phenomena is realized at each level; however, all heterogeneities are in the multi-scale co-ordination and influence each other, causing the interconnected structural variations. This supports the self-organization of the material structure. The mutual influence of the structural self-organization of individual levels of heterogeneities at the formation of the integral concrete structure is analyzed.