Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The "active image" refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "actions" that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. It explores the many ways images become active in architecture and engineering design processes and how, in the age of computer-based modeling, images play an indispensable role. The contributors examine different types of images, be they pictures, sketches, renderings, maps, plans, and photographs; be they analog or digital, planar or three-dimensional, ephemeral, realistic or imaginary. Their essays investigate how images serve as means of representing, as tools for thinking and reasoning, as ways of imagining the inexistent, as means of communicating and conveying information and how images may also perform functions and have an agency in their own. The essays discuss the role of images from the perspective of philosophy, theory and history of architecture, history of science, media theory, cognitive sciences, design studies, and visual studies, offering a multidisciplinary approach to imagery and showing the various methodologies and interpretations in current research. In addition, they offer valuable insight to better understand how images operate and function in the arts and sciences in general.

Aesthetics --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Architecture --- aesthetics --- architectural models --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- robots --- Maquettes (architecture) --- Modèles techniques. --- Engineering design --- Architectural models --- Conception technique --- Modèles architecturaux --- Modèles techniques.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Machinery, Dynamics of --- Mechanical engineering --- Systems engineering --- Dynamics --- Engineering design --- Dynamic testing --- Engineering models --- Simulation methods --- Dynamique des machines --- Génie mécanique --- Ingénierie des systèmes --- Dynamique --- Conception technique --- Modèles techniques --- Méthodes de simulation --- Mechanical engineering. --- Dynamics.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Engineering models --- Structural engineering --- Modèles techniques --- Technique de la construction --- 539.4 --- 624.04 --- Engineering --- Similitude in engineering --- Models and modelmaking --- Engineering, Structural --- Structures, Engineering of --- Architecture --- Strength. Resistance to stress --- Structural design. Graphical and analytical statics for investigation and calculation of structures --- Models --- Engineering models. --- Structural engineering. --- 624.04 Structural design. Graphical and analytical statics for investigation and calculation of structures --- 539.4 Strength. Resistance to stress --- Modèles techniques --- Structural frames. --- Beams supports --- Teaching

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The book traces the use of physical models by engineering designers from the eighteenth century, through their heyday in the 1950s-70s, to their current use alongside computer models. It argues that their use has been at least as important in the development of engineering as scientific theory has. Physical models have been, and continue to be used by engineers when faced with unprecedented challenges, when engineering science has been inadequate or even non-existent, and in any other situation when engineers have needed to raise their confidence in a design proposal to a sufficient level in order to begin construction. For this reason, models have mostly been used by designers and constructors of highly innovative projects, when previous experience has not been available. The book covers the history of using physical models in the design and development of civil and building engineering projects including Robert Stephenson?s Britannia Bridge in the 1840s, the masonry Aswan Dam in the 1890s and the Boulder Dam in the 1930s; tidal flow in estuaries and wind and seismic loads on structures from the 1890s, the acoustics of concert halls and the design of thin concrete shell roofs from the 1920s, and the dynamic behaviour of tall buildings from the 1930s, as well as and cable-net and membrane structures in the 1960s. Individual designers featured include Eduardo Torroja, Pier Luigi Nervi, Heinz Hossdorf, Heinz Isler, Frei Otto, Sergio Musmeci and Mamoru Kawaguchi. The book concludes with overviews of the current use of physical models alongside computer models, for example in boundary layer wind tunnels, seismic engineering, hydrology, soil mechanics, and air flow in buildings. Traditionally, progress in engineering has been attributed to the creation and use of engineering science, the understanding of materials properties and the development of new construction methods. The book argues that the use of reduced-scale models has played an equally important part in the development of civil and building engineering. However, like the history of engineering design itself, this crucial contribution has not been widely reported or celebrated.

(Produktform)Hardback --- Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen --- Baustatik --- Baustatik u. Baumechanik --- Bauwesen --- Civil Engineering & Construction --- Civil Engineering & Construction Special Topics --- Geschichte der Physik --- History of Physics --- Materials Science --- Materialwissenschaften --- Materialwissenschaften / Theorie, Modellierung u. Simulation --- Physics --- Physics Special Topics --- Physik --- Spezialthemen Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen --- Spezialthemen Physik --- Stahlhochbau --- Stahlhochbau u. Brückenbau --- Steel Construction & Bridge Engineering --- Structural Theory & Structural Mechanics --- Structures --- Theory, Modeling & Simulation --- Tragwerke --- CE00: Allg. Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen --- CE03: Tragwerke --- CE07: Stahlhochbau u. Brückenbau --- CE80: Baustatik u. Baumechanik --- CEZ0: Spezialthemen Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen --- MS90: Materialwissenschaften / Theorie, Modellierung u. Simulation --- PH00: Allg. Physik --- PH01: Geschichte der Physik --- PHZ0: Spezialthemen Physik --- (VLB-WN)1685: Hardcover, Softcover / Technik/Bautechnik, Umwelttechnik --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- civil engineering --- building physics --- construction models --- Civil engineering --- Engineering models --- Génie civil --- Modèles techniques --- Engineering models. --- Structural engineering --- Technique de la construction --- History --- Histoire