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Innovative surface structures : technology and applications / Martin Bechthold.
Fine Arts Library TA660.P6 B37 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bechthold, Martin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plates (Engineering).
- Shells (Engineering).
- Tensile architecture.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon [England] ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2008.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Accession Fund for the Built Environment Collections.
- ISBN:
- 9780415419666
- 0415419662
- 9780415419673
- 0415419670
- OCLC:
- 182621543
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