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épure de Crémona

English translation: Cremona diagram


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French term or phrase:épure de Crémona
English translation:Cremona diagram
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Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics / (Offshore) construction/architecture
French term or phrase: épure de Crémona
From a post-grad work sheet on maths and physics of offshore construction.

Does anyone know if this is the name of a design software for example?

Having trouble finding it online to verify translation.

It appears once in the document in the following chunck of text which preceeds a computer drawn diagram.

A partir des efforts externes trouvés, calculer les efforts dans les diagonales et les horizontales des faces du jacket. Pour cela on analysera le modèle simplifié isostatique (articulations aux extrémités des tubes) d'une face (programme ordinateur, épure de Crémona, équilibre des noeuds etc.).
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Cremona diagram
Explanation:
diagram used for planning/designing trusses and frames

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-03-05 19:43:32 GMT)
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NB - can also be called a Maxwell-Cremona diagram
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Cremona transformation


Explanation:
Cremona refers to Luigi Cremona.

Cremona transformation and general solution of one dynamical ...Cremona transformation and general solution of one dynamical system of the static model. Source, Physica D archive Volume 57 , Issue 3-4 (August 1992) table ...
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=139950.139963&dl=&dl=acm&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 - Similar pages


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Cremona diagram


Explanation:
diagram used for planning/designing trusses and frames

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-03-05 19:43:32 GMT)
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NB - can also be called a Maxwell-Cremona diagram


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss
Clare Forder
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This is the one :)

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agree  Alex Lane: Cremona adapted graphical techniques (such as the ones used at the drafting table) to address engineering issues.
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