The philosophical basis of Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts
The philosophical basis of Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts
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看得见、摸得着的结构概念的哲学基础
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Yue Wu
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作者：
T. Ji;A. Bell;Yue Wu
摘要 结构概念是土木工程的基础知识，可供学生学习、讲师教授和工程师使用。然而，许多学生发现由于结构概念的抽象性而很难理解它们。 《观察和触摸结构概念》旨在帮助土木工程专业的学生直观（无需分析）理解结构概念，从结构元素到整体结构，从理论到实践。本文解释了该方法的哲学基础，其中涉及该方法及其演变的基本思想和原则。这包括开发 60 多个成对制作的物理模型，一个包含结构概念，一个不包含结构概念，以说明结构概念的效果和重要性。从工程实践中创造性地运用结构概念的相关案例已超过70个。已经开发了一个网站 www.structuralconcepts.org，并出版了两本相关书籍。支持“看到和触摸结构概念”方法的五个标准被表达为寻求新联系、探索新含义、演变成直观理解、进行广泛和创造性的应用以及简单性（SEEMS），并通过示例和综合案例研究进行了演示。
ABSTRACT Structural concepts are fundamentals of civil engineering for students to learn, for lecturers to teach and for engineers to use. Many students however find it difficult to understand structural concepts due to their abstract nature. Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts has been developed as an approach to help civil engineering students gain intuitive (without the need for analysis) understanding of structural concepts taking them from structural elements to whole structures and from theory to practice. The paper explains the philosophical basis of the approach which involves the fundamental ideas and principles underlying the approach and its evolution. This has included the development of over 60 physical models produced in pairs, one with and one without involving a structural concept, to illustrate the effects and the significance of the structural concepts. Over 70 associated cases using structural concepts creatively have been identified from engineering practice. A website, www.structuralconcepts.org, has been developed and two associated books have been published. Five criteria underpinning the approach of Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts are expressed as Seeking new connections, Exploring new meanings, Evolving into intuitive understanding, Making wide and creative applications and Simplicity (SEEMS), which are demonstrated using examples and synthesised case studies.