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principles of mechanics
- In mechanics of solids: Beams, columns, plates, and shells
The 1700s and early 1800s were a productive period during which the mechanics of simple elastic structural elements were developed—well before the beginnings in the 1820s of the general three-dimensional theory. The development of beam theory by Euler, who generally modeled beams as elastic…
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use in building construction
- In construction: The concrete dome
Shell construction in concrete also began in the 1920s; the first example was a very thin (6 centimetres) hemispherical shell for a planetarium (1924) in Jena, Germany, spanning 25 metres (82 feet). In 1927 an octagonal ribbed shell dome with a span of 66 metres…
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