利用计算结构分析和设计重建车轮的发明。

IF 2.9 3区 综合性期刊 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
Royal Society Open Science Pub Date : 2024-10-23 eCollection Date: 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1098/rsos.240373
Lee R Alacoque, Richard W Bulliet, Kai A James
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摘要

车轮的发明被广泛认为是人类历史上的关键时刻,然而围绕其发现的细节却被蒙上了一层神秘的面纱。对于这项技术最初是在哪里、如何以及由谁发明的等关键问题,学术界仍未达成共识。在这项研究中,我们采用了计算结构力学的最新技术来揭示这一长期存在的谜团。在此分析基础上,我们提出了车轮通过三大创新演变的可能路径。我们还介绍了一种独创的计算设计算法,该算法利用进化过程自主生成车轮和车轴系统,有助于深入了解近 6000 年前第一批车轮可能的进化方式。我们的分析为最近提出的理论提供了新的佐证,即车轮是早在公元前 3900 年从喀尔巴阡山脉开采铜矿的新石器时代矿工发明的。此外,我们还展示了矿山环境的独特物理特征是如何使车轮的发现成为可能的,其影响类似于推动生物进化的选择性环境压力。
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Reconstructing the invention of the wheel using computational structural analysis and design.

The invention of the wheel is widely credited as a pivotal moment in human history, yet the details surrounding its discovery are shrouded in mystery. There remains no scholarly consensus on key questions such as where, how and by whom this technology was originally invented. In this study, we employ state-of-the-art techniques from computational structural mechanics to shed light on this long-standing puzzle. Based on this analysis, we propose a probable path along which the wheel evolved via a sequence of three major innovations. We also introduce an original computational design algorithm that autonomously generates a wheel-and-axle system using an evolutionary process that offers insight into the way in which the first wheels likely evolved nearly 6000 years ago. Our analysis provides new supporting evidence for the recently advanced theory that the wheel was invented by Neolithic miners harvesting copper ore from the Carpathian Mountains as early as 3900 BC. Moreover, we show how the discovery of the wheel was made possible by the unique physical features of the mine environment, whose impact was analogous to the selective environmental pressures that drive biological evolution.

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Royal Society Open Science
Royal Society Open Science Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary
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6.00
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0.00%
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508
审稿时长
14 weeks
期刊介绍: Royal Society Open Science is a new open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and will allow the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact.
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