Table of Contents
Cover
Foreword of the series editors
Foreword
Preface to the second English edition
About this series
About the series editors
About the author
Chapter 1: The tasks and aims of a historical study of the theory of structures
1.1 Internal scientific tasks
1.2 Practical engineering tasks
1.3 Didactic tasks
1.4 Cultural tasks
1.5 Aims
1.6 An invitation to take part in a journey through time to search for the equilibrium of loadbearing structures
Chapter 2: Learning from history: 12 introductory essays
2.1 What is theory of structures?
2.2 From the lever to the trussed framework
2.3 The development of higher engineering education
2.4 A study of earth pressure on retaining walls
2.5 Insights into bridge-building and theory of structures in the 19th century
2.6 The industrialisation of steel bridge-building between 1850 and 1900
2.7 Influence lines
2.8 The beam on elastic supports
2.9 Displacement method
2.10 Second-order theory
2.11 Ultimate load method
2.12 Structural law – Static law – Formation law
Chapter 3: The first fundamental engineering science disciplines: theory of structures and applied mechanics
3.1 What is engineering science?
3.2 Subsuming the encyclopaedic in the system of classical engineering sciences: five case studies from applied mechanics and theory of structures
Chapter 4: From masonry arch to elastic arch
4.1 The arch allegory
4.2 The geometrical thinking behind the theory of masonry arch bridges
4.3 From wedge to masonry arch or the addition theorem of wedge theory
4.4 From the analysis of masonry arch collapse mechanisms to voussoir rotation theory
4.5 The line of thrust theory
4.6 The breakthrough for elastic theory
4.7 Ultimate load theory for masonry arches
4.8 The finite element method
4.9 The studies of Holzer
4.10 On the epistemological status of masonry arch theories
Chapter 5: The history of earth pressure theory
5.1 Retaining walls for fortifications
5.2 Earth pressure theory as an object of military engineering
5.3 Modifications to Coulomb earth pressure theory
5.4 The contribution of continuum mechanics
5.5 Earth pressure theory from 1875 to 1900
5.6 Experimental earth pressure research
5.7 Earth pressure theory in the discipline-formation period of geotechnical engineering
5.8 Earth pressure theory in the consolidation period of geotechnical engineering
5.9 Earth pressure theory in the integration period of geotechnical engineering
Chapter 6: The beginnings of a theory of structures
6.1 What is the theory of strength of materials?
6.2 On the state of development of theory of structures and strength of materials in the Renaissance
6.3 Galileo’s Dialogue
6.4 Developments in strength of materials up to 1750
6.6 The formation of a theory of structures: Eytelwein and Navier
6.7 Adoption of Navier’s analysis of the continuous beam
Chapter 7: The discipline-formation period of theory of structures
7.1 Clapeyron’s contribution to the formation of the classical engineering sciences
7.2 The completion of the practical beam theory
7.3 From graphical statics to graphical analysis
7.4 The classical phase of theory of structures
7.5 Theory of structures at the transition from the discipline-formation to the consolidation period
7.6 Lord Rayleigh’s
The Theory of Sound
and Kirpitchev’s fundamentals of classical theory of structures
7.7 The Berlin school of theory of structures
Chapter 8: From construction with iron to modern structural steelwork
8.1 Torsion theory in iron construction and theory of structures from 1850 to 1900
8.2 Crane-building at the focus of mechanical and electrical engineering, steel construction and theory of structures
8.3 Torsion theory in the consolidation period of theory of structures (1900 – 1950)
8.4 Searching for the true buckling theory in steel construction
8.5 Steelwork and steelwork science from 1925 to 1975
8.6 Eccentric orbits – the disappearance of the centre
Chapter 9: Member analysis conquers the third dimension: the spatial framework
9.1 The emergence of the theory of spatial frameworks
9.2 Spatial frameworks in an age of technical reproducibility
9.3 Dialectic synthesis of individual structural composition and large-scale production
Chapter 10: Reinforced concrete’s influence on theory of structures
10.1 The first design methods in reinforced concrete construction
10.2 Reinforced concrete revolutionises the building industry
10.3 Theory of structures and reinforced concrete
10.4 Prestressed concrete: “Une révolution dans l’art de bâtir” (Freyssinet)
10.5 Paradigm change in reinforced concrete design in the Federal Republic of Germany, too
10.6 Revealing the invisible: reinforced concrete design with truss models
Chapter 11: The consolidation period of theory of structures
11.1 The relationship between text, image and symbol in theory of structures
11.2 The development of the displacement method
11.3 The rationalisation movement in theory of structures
11.4 Konrad Zuse and the automation of structural calculations
11.5 Matrix formulation
Chapter 12: The development and establishment of computational statics
12.1 “The computer shapes the theory” (Argyris) – the historical roots of the finite element method
12.2 The matrix algebra reformulation of structural mechanics
12.3 FEM – formation of a general technology of engineering science theory
12.4 The founding of FEM through variational principles
12.5 Back to the roots
12.6 Computational mechanics
Chapter 13: Thirteen scientific controversies in mechanics and theory of structures
13.1 The scientific controversy
13.2 Thirteen disputes
13.3 Résumé
Chapter 14: Perspectives for a historical theory of structures
14.1 Theory of structures and aesthetics
14.2 Historical engineering science – historical theory of structures
Chapter 15: Brief biographies of 260 protagonists of theory of structures
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index
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