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Lightweight Landscape - Alessandra Zanelli

Lightweight Landscape

Alessandra Zanelli

This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance .

Computational Design of Lightweight Structures - Benoit Descamps

Computational Design of Lightweight Structures

Benoit Descamps

The author of this book presents a general, robust, and easy-to-use method that can handle many design parameters efficiently.

Materials, design and manufacturing for lightweight vehicles - P. K. Mallick

Materials, design and manufacturing for lightweight vehicles

P. K. Mallick

Research into the manufacture of lightweight automobiles is driven by the need to reduce fuel consumption to preserve dwindling hydrocarbon resources without compromising other attributes such as safety, performance, recyclability and cost.

Mechanics of optimal structural design - D. W. A. Rees

Mechanics of optimal structural design

D. W. A. Rees

In a global climate where engineers are increasingly under pressure to make the most of limited resources, there are huge potential financial and environmental benefits to be gained by designing for minimum weight.

Cardboard in architecture - M. Eekhout

Cardboard in architecture

M. Eekhout

The department of building technology at the faculty of architecture at tu delft studies and develops cardboard as a potential building material on a comprehensive basis.

Lightweight Sandwich Construction - J. M. Davies

Lightweight Sandwich Construction

J. M. Davies

Sandwich panels are being used increasingly as the cladding of buildings like factories, warehouses, cold stores and retail sheds.

Product lightweighting - C-Tech Innovation

Product lightweighting

C-Tech Innovation

Light Structures - Structures of Light - Horst Berger

Light Structures - Structures of Light

Horst Berger

In this book tensile structures are explained and illustrated by its most prolific designer.

Leicht Weit = - Jorge Schlaich

Leicht Weit =

Jorge Schlaich

When today's leading architects--such as frank o.

Free-standing tension structures - Binbing Wang

Free-standing tension structures

Binbing Wang

Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports.