Il libro tratta dei fondamenti teorici della Scienza delle costruzioni, partendo dalle origini della teoria moderna dell'elasticita. La situazione italiana viene inquadrata in quella europea, esaminando e commentando gli studiosi che hanno avuto un ruolo essenziale per gli sviluppi della meccanica dei corpi continui e delle strutture e delle tecniche di calcolo grafico. Esso e diretto a tutti quei laureati in ingegneria, ma anche in architettura, che vogliano avere una visione piu globale e critica della disciplina che hanno studiato per anni. E poi diretto naturalmente agli studiosi di...
Il libro tratta dei fondamenti teorici della Scienza delle costruzioni, partendo dalle origini della teoria moderna dell'elasticita. La situazione ita...
The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attention to cases where the effectiveness of forces is assessed on the basis of the virtual motion of their points of application. For completeness, hints of the alternative approach are also referred, the Archimedean for ancient mechanics and the Newtonian for modern mechanics. The laws resulting from consideration of virtual motions are named laws of virtual work. The modern formulations of the principle of virtual work are only a particular form...
The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attent...
This book focuses on the way in which the problem of the motion of bodies has been viewed and approached over the course of human history. It is not another traditional history of mechanics but rather aims to enable the reader to fully understand the deeper ideas that inspired men, first in attempting to understand the mechanisms of motion and then in formulating theories with predictive as well as explanatory value. Given this objective, certain parts of the history of mechanics are neglected, such as fluid mechanics, statics and astronomy after Newton. On the other hand, due attention is...
This book focuses on the way in which the problem of the motion of bodies has been viewed and approached over the course of human history. It is not a...
This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the modern theory of elasticity. While the focus is on the advances made within Italy during the nineteenth century, these achievements are framed within the overall European context. The vital contributions of Italian mathematicians, mathematical physicists and engineers in respect of the theory of elasticity, continuum mechanics, structural mechanics, the principle of least work and graphical methods in engineering are carefully explained and...
This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the...
This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554).
In the early 16th century mechanics was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus, generally pursued by two very different approaches. The first was usually referred to as Aristotelian, where the equilibrium of bodies was set as a balance...
This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century...
This book presents a history of classical mechanics, documenting methods of study from Greece in the fourth century BC to late nineteenth-century Europe. The text assesses effectiveness of forces based on the virtual motion of their points of application.
This book presents a history of classical mechanics, documenting methods of study from Greece in the fourth century BC to late nineteenth-century Euro...
This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the modern theory of elasticity.
This book examines the theoretical foundations underpinning the field of strength of materials/theory of elasticity, beginning from the origins of the...
This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach.
This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with ...
