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024 7 _a10.1002/9783433609613
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050 4 _aTA177
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049 _aMAIN
245 0 0 _aPhysical models :
_btheir historical and current use in civil and building engineering design /
_cEdited by Bill Addis.
264 1 _aBerlin, Germany :
_bErnst & Sohn,
_c[2021]
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aSection A Physical models from ancient times to the 1880s -- Models in civil engineering from ancient times to the Industrial Revolution / Dirk Bühler -- Block models of the masonry arch and vault / Santiago Huerta -- The catenary and the line of thrust as a means for shaping arches and vaults / Rainer Graefe -- Leonhard Euler and the model tests for a 300-metre timber arch bridge in St. Petersburg / Andreas Kahlow -- The use of models in early nineteenth-century British suspension bridge design / Denis Smith -- Models used during the design of the Conway and Britannia tubular bridges / Bill Addis -- Section B Physical models used in structural design, 1890s-1930s -- The use of models to inform the structural design of dams, 1890s-1930s / Mike Chrimes -- Models used during the design of the Boulder Dam / Bill Addis -- The role of models in the early development of Zeiss-Dywidag shells / Roland May -- Model testing of structures in pre-war Italy: the School of Arturo Danusso / Mario Alberto Chiorino, Gabriele Neri -- Eduardo Torroja and his use of models up to 1936 / Joaquín Antuña -- Photoelastic stress analysis / Bill Addis -- Section C Physical models used in structural design, 1940s to 1980s -- Structural modelling technique / Bernard Espion, Bill Addis -- Physical modelling at the University of Stuttgart / Christiane Weber -- Model testing of structures in post-war Italy. The activity of ISMES, 1951-1974 / Mario Alberto Chiorino, Gabriele Neri -- Eduardo Torroja and his use of models from 1939 / Joaquín Atuña -- Scale models for structural testing at the Cement and Concrete Association, UK: 1951-1973 / Edwin Trout -- Heinz Hossdorf: his contribution to the development of physical model testing / Pepa Cassinello -- Soap-film and soap-bubble models / Berthold Burkhardt -- The model as a concept: the origins of the design methods of Sergio Musmeci / Lukas Ingold -- Heinz Isler and his use of physical models / John Chilton -- Models for the design development, engineering and construction of the Multihalle for the 1975 Bundesgartenschau in Mannheim / Ian Liddell -- Section D Physical models used in non-structural engineering disciplines -- The historical use of physical model testing in free-surface hydraulic engineering / Bill Addis -- The historical use of physical model testing in wind engineering / Bill Addis -- The historical use of physical model testing in earthquake engineering / Bill Addis -- The historical use of models in the acoustic design of buildings / Raf Orlowski -- Geotechnical centrifuge models - a history of their role in pre-construction design / William H Craig -- Section E Physical modelling in the twenty-first century -- Physical models as powerful weapons in structural design / Mamoru Kawaguchi -- Physical modelling of structures for contemporary building design / Bruce Martin -- Models in the design of complex masonry structures / David Wendland -- Physical modelling of free surface water - current practice / James Sutherland -- Boundary layer wind tunnel model testing - current practice / Francesco Dorigatti -- Model testing using shake tables - current practice / Amarnath Kasalanati -- Geotechnical centrifuge modelling - current practice / David White -- The use of physical models in acoustic design - current practice / Raf Orlowski -- Water-bath modelling - small-scale simulation of natural ventilation flows / Owen Connick -- The use of biological models for building engineering design / Jan Knippers -- Flying a 100-metre long Jumbo Koinobori / Mamoru Kawaguchi -- Epilogue: A future for models from the past / Dirk Bühler, Christiane Weber -- Appendices -- Appendix A.1 -- Appendix A.2 -- Appendix A.3 -- Appendix A.4 -- Appendix A.5 -- Appendix A.6 -- Appendix A.7 -- Author biographies.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (John Wiley, viewed October 5, 2020).
650 0 _aEngineering models.
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aAddis, William,
_d1949-
_eeditor.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1002/9783433609613
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