CHILTON, John(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2009-11-25)
The first Congress of the International Association of Shell Structures (now IASS), held in
Madrid in 1959, was the occasion when Heinz Isler's innovative methods for determining
the shape and constructing reinforced ...
CHILTON, John(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-08)
Although the structural principle of closed circuits of mutually supporting beams was
known by Leonardo Da Vinci and has been used for hundreds, if not thousands of years
(Popovic Larsen [8]), its rediscovery and renaming ...