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SUMMARY:The Geometry of Equilibrium Book Tour: Lecture 1 - Allan McRobie\,
  University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Shehara Perera
DESCRIPTION:This month Cambridge University Press are publishing  “The G
 eometry of Equilibrium: James Clerk Maxwell and 21st-Century Structural Me
 chanics”. \n\nEdited by Bill Baker and Allan McRobie\, the book is the r
 esult of around 10 years’ collaborative research with contributions from
  many others\, including current and former members of the Structures Grou
 p\; Petia Tzokova\, Marina Konstantatou\, Cameron Millar\, Simon Guest and
  John Ochsendorf.\n\nThe talk will explain how a re-examination of the pap
 ers of James Clerk Maxwell can lead to a highly geometric perspective on s
 tructural engineering theory that is strikingly different to the one usual
 ly taught in this and other engineering departments. This ‘new’ perspe
 ctive is of great relevance to modern\, material-efficient structural desi
 gn. The talk will also describe some of the more recent research into the 
 foundations of structural mechanics that has since been built on Maxwell
 ’s insights.  This is founded on Legendre transforms and polarities in 3
 D and 4D projective geometry\, with added elements from algebraic topology
 \, homology and cohomology. Much of this material is too recent to have ma
 de it into the book. 
LOCATION:CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building)
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