On the beauty… : Scientific meeting of the Assembly of Members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on November 25, 2022

You can show the flow of forces, the flow through a wall on the left on this slide or the flow of forces in a shell structure, in a cylinder, by showing the principal stresses or the principal membrane forces, but you can also build models.You can go to the supermarket, buy 2 kilos of oranges and stretch the net.When you stretch the net, you come to a shape that shows the flow of forces.And it has a lot of holes in it.© sbp/ Mike Schlaich You can also calculate the flow of forces.Now we move on to the design process of this bridge.Today there are wonderful tools that allow you to calculate