Innovative surface structures
Subtitle: technology and applications
By: Martin Bechthold.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415419666; 9780415419673
Subjects: Plates (Engineering); Shells (Engineering); Tensile architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Surface architecture; title: Lightweight design-new directions; title: Quest for thinness; title: Membrane structures; title: Types and structural behaviour; title: Form-finding and analysis; title: Materials and fabrication; title: Rigid surfaces; title: Form and structure; title: From concepts to constructs; title: Material and construction approaches; title: Perspectives; title: Emerging technologies and systems; title: Towards a new architecture of structural surfaces.