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The changing concept of truss design caused by the influence of science
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Abstract
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| Using the example of trusses the paper demonstrates the strong influence of a scientific view on structures and structural concepts arising at the beginning of the 19th century in Western Europe. By then structures have been considered as assembled constructs arranged according to utilization and boundary conditions. In most cases, such structures were designed and built based on samples, which had been promoted in circulating textbooks and treatises during the 17th and 18th century. Shortly after the establishment of technical colleges in Western Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, the education of engineers dramatically changed and thus also the basis of the design thinking. The paper traces the characteristics of the new scientific approach examining the theories and views of Schwedler and Culmann, theorists and engineers publishing the first widely recognized truss theories, and exemplarily shows the consequences. These were a different perception of common structures and a new concept of structural design leading to a systemization and optimization of the structural form for both the overall structure and the members. This paradigmatic change from continuous adoption to a materialization of what is found to be theoretically sound is also the change from a functional to a morphological understanding of structure. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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1st International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA2010), July 21-23, 2010, Guimaraes, Portugal
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Publication
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2010
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ISBN
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978-0-415-49249-2
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(2010)
, p. 2018-2026
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ISI
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000320604900248
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