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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Structural and civil engineering design. Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate, c1999 (OCoLC)606510710 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Addis |
| ISBN: | 0860787613 9780860787617 |
| OCLC Number: | 40175067 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xliii, 365 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The mechanization of design in the 16th century : the structural formulae of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón / Sergio Luis Sanabria -- Designing the beam : from rules of thumb to calculations / David T. Yeomans -- History of retaining wall design / J. Kerisel -- The use of models in nineteenth-century British suspension bridge design / Denis Smith -- Brunel and the design of the Clifton Suspension Bridge / R.F.D. Porter Goff -- History of building foundations in Chicago / Ralph B. Peck -- The Gothic cathedral : design and meaning / Otto G. von Simson -- Stability concepts from Renaissance to today / Rowland J. Mainstone -- The place of Sir Christopher Wren in the history of structural engineering / Stanley B. Hamilton -- The origin of iron beams / A.W. Skempton -- Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) : some aspects of his work (part 2 : carpentry) / L.G. Booth -- Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) : some aspects of his work (part 3 : cast iron) / R.J.M. Sutherland -- The birth of stress : a historical review / R.J.M. Sutherland -- The genesis of engineering : theory and practice / A. Rupert Hall -- The functions of engineering research in the university / A.J.S. Pippard -- The design of structural ironwork 1850-1890 : education, theory and practice / Stanley Smith -- Structural design by observation of failures : how the Gothic master masons determined the dimensions of their structures / Henry J. Cowan -- The Britannia Tubular Bridge : a paradigm of failure driven design / Henry Petroski -- Structural failures and the growth of engineering knowledge / D.I. Blockley and J.R. Henderson -- The evolution of structural engineering design procedures : a history for that skill called design / William Addis. |
| Series Title: | Studies in the history of civil engineering, v. 12. |
| Responsibility: | edited by William Addis. |
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