engineering

Lars Brising

Lars Brising is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lars Brising rather than just read about it. In short: Lars Harald Brising (1915-1995) was a Swedish engineer and aircraft designer. He is best known for having been chief designer for Saab 29 Tunnan which flew for the first time in 1948.

Key takeaways

Lars Brising belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lars Brising to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lars Brising from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lars Harald Brising (1915-1995) was a Swedish engineer and aircraft designer. He is best known for having been chief designer for Saab 29 Tunnan which flew for the first time in 1948. He became major general (the head) of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration. Lars Brising was the son of art historian Harald Brising. He underwent flight training in the Swedish Air Force in 1936 and graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 1938. He worked at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration 1938–1939 and then became designer at Götaverken's aviation department in 1939 and was active at Valtion lentokonetehdas in Finland 1940. Brising was then flight test manager at Saab 1940–1941, section manager at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration design office 1941–1943. He became technical manager of Saab's flight test department in 1943, became project engineer in 1945, construction manager for jet aircraft in 1946, chief engineer for construction in 1949, head of the aeronautics department in 1952 and director in 1954. He became major general at the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration in 1965 and was its head 1967–1968. As head of the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration, he was also a member of Administration Board of the Swedish Armed Forces. Brising was CEO for Svenska Utvecklings AB (a governmental tech and business development company) 1968–1975. Brising became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1956 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 1964. He was promoted to technology honorary doctor at KTH in 1974.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lars Brising

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lars Brising claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lars Brising before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lars Brising ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lars Brising

In research: Lars Brising appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lars Brising in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lars Brising is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1915 births, 1995 deaths, 20th-century Swedish engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lars Brising outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lars Brising in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lars Brising means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Lars Brising out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Lars Brising in simple terms?

Lars Harald Brising (1915-1995) was a Swedish engineer and aircraft designer. He is best known for having been chief designer for Saab 29 Tunnan which flew for the first time in 1948.

Why does Lars Brising matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lars Brising?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lars Brising.