0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)

Buy Now

An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics - Part I: Statics and Resistance of Solids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991) Loot Price: R3,635
Discovery Miles 36 350
An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics - Part I: Statics and Resistance of Solids (Paperback, Softcover reprint...

An Introduction to the History of Structural Mechanics - Part I: Statics and Resistance of Solids (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

Edoardo Benvenuto

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R3,635 Discovery Miles 36 350 | Repayment Terms: R341 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

This book is one of the finest I have ever read. To write a foreword for it is an honor, difficult to accept. Everyone knows that architects and master masons, long before there were mathematical theories, erected structures of astonishing originality, strength, and beauty. Many of these still stand. Were it not for our now acid atmosphere, we could expect them to stand for centuries more. We admire early architects' visible success in the distribution and balance of thrusts, and we presume that master masons had rules, perhaps held secret, that enabled them to turn architects' bold designs into reality. Everyone knows that rational theories of strength and elasticity, created centuries later, were influenced by the wondrous buildings that men of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries saw daily. Theorists know that when, at last, theories began to appear, architects distrusted them, partly because they often disregarded details of importance in actual construction, partly because nobody but a mathematician could understand the aim and func tion of a mathematical theory designed to represent an aspect of nature. This book is the first to show how statics, strength of materials, and elasticity grew alongside existing architecture with its millenial traditions, its host of successes, its ever-renewing styles, and its numerous problems of maintenance and repair. In connection with studies toward repair of the dome of St. Peter's by Poleni in 1743, on p."

General

Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2011
First published: 1991
Authors: Edoardo Benvenuto
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 306
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-7745-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics)
Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-4612-7745-0
Barcode: 9781461277453

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Foundations of Engineering Acoustics
Frank J. Fahy Hardcover R2,952 Discovery Miles 29 520
Fourier Acoustics - Sound Radiation and…
Earl G. Williams Hardcover R2,941 Discovery Miles 29 410
Reference for Modern Instrumentation…
R.N. Thurston, Allan D. Pierce Hardcover R4,342 Discovery Miles 43 420
Reference for Modern Instrumentation…
R.N. Thurston, Allan D. Pierce Hardcover R3,675 Discovery Miles 36 750
Active Control of Sound
P.A. Nelson Hardcover R1,457 Discovery Miles 14 570
What the Ear Hears (and Doesn't…
Richard Mainwaring Paperback R430 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040
The Discovery of Radium and Radio Active…
Marie Curie Hardcover R1,156 R965 Discovery Miles 9 650
Acoustics: Sound Fields, Transducers and…
Leo Beranek, Tim Mellow Paperback R3,270 R2,783 Discovery Miles 27 830
Behavior of Sound Waves Physics Made…
Baby Professor Hardcover R748 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590
Radiative Properties of Semiconductors
N.M. Ravindra, Sita Rajyalaxmi Marthi, … Hardcover R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770
What's the Matter with Waves? - An…
William Parkinson Hardcover R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780
Modern Analytical Electromagnetic…
Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia Hardcover R3,077 Discovery Miles 30 770

See more

Partners