Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 194 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511524677
Content:
The spectacular structures of today, such as large suspension bridges, are the result of scientific principles established during the new iron age of the nineteenth century. The book is concerned with a detailed and critical account of the development and application of those principles (including statics and elasticity) by people of remarkable talent in applied mathematics and engineering. They were, of course, mainly motivated by the demands of the railway, construction boom. Among the outstanding examples chosen by the author is Robert Stephenson's use of novel principles for the design and erection of the Britannia tubular iron bridge over the Menai Straits. A History of the Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century is a uniquely comprehensive account of a century of the development of the theory; an account which skilfully blends the personalities and the great works and which is enlivened by little-known accounts of friendship and controversy
Content:
Includes index and bibliography
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521234191
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521524827
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521234191
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511524677
