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Zusammenfassungen - Résumés - Abstracts
The account of model structural analysis to the architects and
engineers during the first half of the 19 th century
In the 19 th century, inventions of advanced construction types have embossed the
building trade, which have been developed due to an innovative scientific knowledge
and the implementation of new materials.
Often engineers are assumed to have been carrying out this development, who
invented new analytic calculation methods in these days. This proves right for the
second half of the century, whereas a much more complex situation could be described
regarding the first half when there were outstanding architects amongst the inventors of
new structure types, notably Heinrich Hübsch and Georg Moller.
The term “model” ought to be understood in various ways in respect of the construction
and review of structural frames. On the one hand there are models in the original
architectural sense being master pieces of edifices reduced in scale, representing spatially
the properties of a building still to be realised. On the other hand the engineering
sciences understand models as concept models (on a theoretical level) or a physical
model (in an experimental domain), which is being produced in order to fathom the
structural and mechanical behaviour of a structure.
My speech is aiming at discussing several examples of works by architects and
engineers (H. Hübsch, G. Moller, Johann Wilhelm Schwedler) to point out the different
ways they chose to analyse the structural behaviour and to dimension correctly.
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Modelle und Architektur - Les maquettes et l´architecture - Models and Architecture