Trans Structures

Trans Structures
Author: Matyas Gutai
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781940291444

The book introduces water as a building material to build unique, responsive-able structures and define a new paradigm for architecture and sustainable design.

Trans Structures: Fluid Architecture and Liquid Engineering

Trans Structures: Fluid Architecture and Liquid Engineering
Author: Matyas Gutai
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1945150491

Architecture is based upon the misconception that strong is stable, both in sense of energy and structure, as an unchanged state of microclimate would require more material or insulation. Trans-structures are the opposite: building elements with the response-ability to change according to external conditions in order to maintain stability in terms of structure and/or energy. In this type of building, any effect (structural or thermal load) would generate an immediate affect (a response of the structure). Energy and weight would be counteracted and on a total scale, change would not occur. Such buildings are always in transition from one state to another, unlike conventional structures.

Liquid Architecture

Liquid Architecture
Author: Pierangelo Marco Scravaglieri
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 100096860X

Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluidity, flows and territorial dynamism. A reconfiguration of architectural materials and authorship is thus considered, leading, in turn, to an exploration of the ethical dimensions of co-designing with natural systems (of various viscosities) through liquid paradigms. The book examines a set of principles for practice-led discoveries that incorporate hybrid, mixed media with the author’s intersubjective relationship with liquid matter. Drawing from qualitative-based analytical investigation models, the text allows comprehension of the liquid phenomena via material contextualisation of an ever-becoming research setting. Through a practical and theoretical engagement with the ontology of liquids, the reader is exposed to a range of design-led experiments and creative propositions, visualisation systems, construction, and testing of physical models that collectively translate into a series of novel insights for architectural agendas. This book will be of interest to architecture and design research students and academics because it advocates the need for a more symbiotic and resilient approach to natural systems, which could benefit from the integration of regenerating material flows into our buildings and urban settlements.

The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality

The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Author: Cecilia McCallum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2023-10-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108669220

With contributions from a diverse team of global authors, this cutting-edge Handbook documents the impact of the study of gender and sexuality upon the foundational practices and precepts of anthropology. Providing a survey of the state-of-the-art in the field, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students of anthropology.

International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (9th ICAMC) and Civil Engineering and Materials Science (8th ICCEMS)

International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (9th ICAMC) and Civil Engineering and Materials Science (8th ICCEMS)
Author: Nuno Dinis Costa Areias Cortiços
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3036414940

Selected peer-reviewed full text papers from the 2023 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Materials Science (ICCEMS 2023) and 2023 9th International Conference on Architecture, Materials and Construction (ICAMC 2023)

Proceedings of the 2002 ASME Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Conference

Proceedings of the 2002 ASME Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Conference
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2002
Genre: Fluid dynamics
ISBN:

Annotation This is the first of two volumes representing the proceedings of the July 2002 conference, and it is itself in two volumes (parts A & B). Approximately 400 papers discuss analysis, numerical methods, experiments in single-phase and multiphase flows, and applications. Topics include high speed jet flows; fluid measurement, instrumentation and machinery; cavitation and multiphase flow; advances in free surface and interface fluid dynamics; CFD applications in large facilities and in automotive flows; turbulent, vehicular, unsteady, three-dimensional, and environmental flows; supersonic flows in shock waves; fluidics; advances in fluids engineering education; flow instabilities and control; fundamentals and industrial applications; and wavelet application in fluid mechanics. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Ship Hydrostatics and Stability

Ship Hydrostatics and Stability
Author: Adrian Biran
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2003-10-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080474365

The hydrostatic approach to ship stability aims to balance idealized ship weight against buoyancy forces. This textbook is a complete guide to understanding ship hydrostatics in ship design and ship performance. Adrian Biran guides readers from first principles through basic and applied hydrostatic and ship stability theory, and introduces contemporary mathematical techniques for hydrostatic modelling and analysis. Real life examples of the practical application of hydrostatics are used to explain the theory and calculations; and to illustrate the effect shifting weights and central gravity displacements have on overall ship stability. Ship Hydrostatics and Stability covers recent developments in the field of naval architecture such as parametric resonance (also known as the Mathieu effect), the effects of non-linear motions on stability, the influence of ship lines, and new international stability regulations for small vessels. Extensive use of computer techniques is made throughout. - Adheres to international standards and terminology - Includes real life practical examples and calculations to illustrate the hydrostatic approach to ship stability

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: University of Wisconsin--Madison. College of Engineering
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1988
Genre: Engineering
ISBN:

Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Author: Dongqing Li
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 2242
Release: 2008-08-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387324682

Covering all aspects of transport phenomena on the nano- and micro-scale, this encyclopedia features over 750 entries in three alphabetically-arranged volumes including the most up-to-date research, insights, and applied techniques across all areas. Coverage includes electrical double-layers, optofluidics, DNC lab-on-a-chip, nanosensors, and more.