2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Methodology establishment of the Paleostructulogy
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19560539
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
交通工学・国土計画
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| Research Institution | Kumamoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOBAYASHI Ichiro Kumamoto University, 大学院・自然科学研究科, 教授 (40109666)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 古構造学 / 橋梁 / 独創性 / 古生物学 / フランス |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to establish the methodology of 'Paleostructulogy' in which we propose to analyze and to stock the forgotten structures in the history of technology. In general such structures are regarded as something of useless for the consideration of future development and are often abandoned. However, careful historical analysis shows us that these cases could be original ideas or solutions to overtake difficult conditions that the engineers have encountered in design process. How can we analyze and study such cases? Which type if point of view should we have? As the word 'Paleostructulogy' that we have named represents, the principal concept of this research is based on the paleontology which treats the creatures of the past. In a pilot study that the author had already taken, the concept and a part of methodology of the Paleostructulogy had been established. But the necessity of precise and general methodology lead us the latest two other case studies. Through the case studies and feeding back to the concept, we have finally reached to propose analyzing and recording chart as method of Paleostructulogy. Accumulation of the case studies by this chart would be the archives of ideas of abandoned structures.
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