Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
$29.95
Blockley, David
Cl. UK 2010
Book ID: 83910
A fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now mainly found in adventure movies), to Roman aqueducts and the timber trestle railway bridges of the American West, to today\'s modern marvels, such as the Akashi-Kaiky? Bridge, which has the largest span in the world. Blockley outlines the forces at work on a bridge--tension, compression, and shear--and the basic structural elements that combat these forces--beams, arches, trusses, and suspensions (or BATS).
312 pp.,
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