Bechthold, Martin

Innovative surface structures : technology and applications / Martin Bechthold. - 232 pages ; 25 cm.



Surface architecture -- Lightweight design-new directions -- Quest for thinness -- Membrane structures -- Types and structural behaviour -- Form-finding and analysis -- Materials and fabrication -- Rigid surfaces -- Form and structure -- From concepts to constructs -- Material and construction approaches -- Perspectives -- Emerging technologies and systems -- Towards a new architecture of structural surfaces.

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Plates (Engineering)--Mathematical models
Shells (Engineering)--Mathematical models
Tensile architecture

TA660.P6 / B37 2008