Understanding and Using Structural Concepts
This is the second edition of Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts with a revised title, Understanding and Using Structural Concepts. The previous title highlighted ways to aid understanding of structural concepts, whilst the current title emphasises both understanding and application of structural concepts. The objective of understanding structural concepts is to enable their use in a creative way to solve practical engineering problems, leading to safe, economical and elegant designs.
This change of the title reflects the nature and our understanding of structural concepts. Structural concepts are defined in this new edition as follows:
A structural concept is a qualitative and concise representation of a mathematical relationship between physical quantities, which captures the essence of the relationship and provides a basis for practical applications in structural engineering.
This definition shows that structural concepts present a sound understanding of theory, bring together mathematics, physical understanding and engineering practice as a whole and indicates a suitable way to learn and to study.
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