| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Engineering case studies online (text) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.0 Turbulent Beginnings -- 1.1 Roots in Antiquity -- 1.2 Modern Beginnings in America and Europe -- 1.3 Maturity in America-Ellet and Roebling -- 2.0 A New Found Confidence -- 2.1 Emerging Concepts -- 2.2 A Proliferation of Concepts -- 2.3 A Generation of Enormous Spans -- 3.0 The Plate Girder Suspension Bridge -- 3.1 European Origins -- 3.2 Early Applications in America -- 3.3 Steinman and the Thousand Island and Deer Isle bridges -- 3.4 Ammann's Bronx-Whitestone Bridge -- 4.0 Epiphany at the Tacoma Narrows |
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4.1 The Rise and Fall of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- 4.2 The Aftermath of the Collapse -- 4.3 Reminders of History -- 4.4 Back to the Future -- 4.5 The Autopsy Results -- 4.6 The Carmody Board and the Dynamic Role of Wind -- 5.0 A Difficult Rebirth -- 5.1 The Insurance Battles, Replacing Gertie, the Dismantling -- 5.2 A Litany of Theories-the Cable Truss and Others -- 5.3 The Advisory Board on the Investigation of Suspension Bridges -- 5.4 Steinman Rebuts and the Development of Stiffness Indexes -- 5.5 Aerodynamic Phenomena and Suspension Bridges -- 6.0 Retrenchment in America |
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6.1 War-Related Spans -- 6.2 The Rebirth of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- 6.3 Other Early Post-Tacoma Efforts -- 7.0 The Legacies of Two Giants -- 7.1 Steinmaris Triumph at Mackinac -- 7.2 Steinman's Closure-the St. Lawrence and Elsewhere -- 7.3 Prelude to the Verrazano-Narrows-the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck bridges -- 7.4 Ammann's Final Legacy-the Verrazano-Narrows -- 8.0 European Reconstruction and Revolution -- 8.1 The Continent Rebuilds -- 8.2 Great Britain Stirs -- 8.3 The Forth Road Bridge -- 8.4 Revolution Across the River Severn -- 9.0 A Renaissance of Ideas |
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9.1 Fritz Leonhardt and the Monocable Suspension Bridge -- 9.2 Prestressed Concrete Suspension Bridges and Cable Trusses -- 9.3 Pipeline Suspension Bridges and other Imaginative Concepts -- 9.4 Bridge across the Tagus-Innovation in Convention -- 10.0 The Twilight of American Dominance -- 10.1 Return to the West Coast -- 10.2 The Rise of Prefabricated Parallel Wire Cables -- 10.3 Canadian Developments -- 10.4 American Twilight -- 11.0 The Box Girder Comes of Age -- 11.1 The Lillebælt Bridge, Denmark -- 11.2 Spanning the Bosporus at Istanbul, Turkey -- 11.3 The Humber Bridge, England |
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12.0 The Box Girder-Problems, Politics, and Pseudo-Boxes -- 12.1 Severn Under Siege -- 12.2 Intrigue across the Bosporus -- 12.3 Hong Kong's Box-like truss-the Tsing Ma Bridge -- 13.0 The Scandinavian Experience -- 13.1 A Unique Norwegian Legacy -- 13.2 The Storebælt East Bridge, Denmark -- 13.3 Höga Kusten Bridge, Sweden -- 14.0 Japan's Remarkable Evolution -- 14.1 Early Beginnings -- 14.2 Crossing the Threshold-the Kanmon and Others -- 14.3 Linking Honshu and Shikoku -- 14.4 The Seto Ohashi -- 14.5 The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge-A Giant Reborn -- 14.6 The Kurushima Triumvirate |
| Summary |
This book focuses on the design changes that were implemented for many suspension bridges after the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-374) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Suspension bridges -- Design and construction -- History
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Suspension bridges -- Aerodynamics.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General.
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Suspension bridges -- Aerodynamics.
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Suspension bridges -- Design and construction.
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| SUBJECT |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940) -- History
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| Subject |
Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780784470732 |
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0784470731 |
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