Imaging the Cheops Pyramid

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bui, H.D (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 182
• Θέματα: Engineering.; Architecture.; Mathematical optimization.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Archaeology.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Optimization.; Architectural History and Theory.

In this book Egyptian Archeology  and Mathematics meet. The author is an expert in theories and applications in Solid Mechanics and Inverse Problems, a former professor at Ecole Polytechnique and now works with Electricité de France on maintenance operations on nuclear power plants. In the Autumn of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Preface Marc Albouy
• On the Cheops pyramid studies
• Historical context of the studies
• The mystery of the unknown Chamber
• What we know and do not know in the pyramid
• The Petrie sequence and the puzzle of stones
• Herodotus or Saurenon
• Microgravity in Geomechanics
• A high precision balance
• Auscultation of sites
• The limitations of auscultation
• Inverse problems and the butterfly effect
• The working conditions in the Cheops operation
• The blind test
• Density images by microgravity
• The second solar boat discovery
• The measurement campaign in the pyramid site
• Measurement results near the King’s Chamber structure
• The low mean density 2.05 T/m3 of the pyramid
• Interstices and voids
• Direct computation of gravity due to a cavity
• Inversion of gravity data for finding cavities near the chambers
• Some Mathematics of the inversion
• Imaging the pyramid with microgravity measurements
• Three-dimensional meshes of the pyramid
• Results on the imaging of the surface density
• The Densitogram
• Raising the density
• Virtual reconstruction of the pyramid
• The Hölscher ramp and the steps of the construction
• Macroscopic and microscopic points of view
• The densitogram and the Borchardt pyramid
• The Houdin internal ramp tunnel
• The mystery of the King’s tomb
• Golden number and intertwined Spirals
• Appendix
• Filling the cornices
• True density and mean density
• Comparison with observations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Permissions and Acknoledgments
• Index
• About the Author.