Tensile Structures

Name: Tensile Structures
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ISBN: 9780262650052

ISBN-10: 0262650053

ISBN-13: 9780262650052

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frei Otto

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For the first time in this edition, Frei Otto's two studies of nonrigid structures (Pneumatic Structuresand Cables, Nets, and Membranes)are available in one volume. Pneumatic Structuresdeals for the most part with surfaces loaded by tractive forces. Special membranes, of high tensile strength, are made semi-rigid by means of differences of enclosed air or fluid pressure and can serve as roofings, halls, silos, dams, or for any other application where ease and rapidity of construction and transportation are essential. This section is illustrated with 1,660 numbered photographs and line drawings, including many striking photographs of both models and existing implements and structures. In…

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/15/1973
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 490
Size: 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

The late Charles Mierow was President of Colorado College.Karl Morrison is on the faculty of the history department at Rutgers University and currently in residence at theErasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame.