The changing concept of truss design caused by the influence of science University of Antwerp
Using the example of trusses the paper demonstrates the strong influence of a scientific view on structures and structural concepts arising at the beginning of the 19th century in Western Europe. By then structures have been considered as assembled constructs arranged according to utilization and boundary conditions. In most cases, such structures were designed and built based on samples, which had been promoted in circulating textbooks and ...