Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design

by Werner Lorenz, Bill Addis, Karl-Eugen Kurrer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3433032572
• ISBN13: 9783433032572
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Ernst & Sohn
• Length: 1114 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.1" x 9.8"