Gebundenes Buch

Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

Beschreibung

The design, construction and fabrication of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in civil and naval architecture have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. This volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering.

Autor

Horst Nowacki, Dr.-Ing. (1963) in Naval Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, Prof. of Ship Design at TU Berlin (1974-1998), has published about 200 articles and books on naval architecture and ship theory including Computational Geometry for Ships, co-authored with M.I.G. Bloor and B. Oleksiewicz (World Scientific Publ., Singapore, 1995). Wolfgang Lefèvre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Senior Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, until 2006. He has published extensively on history of philosophy, science, and technology including Picturing Machines (MIT Press, 2004).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: World Bank Publications
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 169mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9789004173453
• ISBN-10: 9004173455
• Artikelnr.: 26856026