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.
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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. This book provides a detailed and critical account of the development and application of these principles by remarkable individuals such as Robert Stephenson.
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Much progress in theory of structures during the nineteenth century has been ascribed, notably by Clapeyron (1857) in France and Pole (Jeaffreson, 1864) in Britain, to the coming of the railway era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supernumerary bars, supernumerary lines, horizontal deflexion, elastic centre, statique graphique, least work principle, vertical deflexion, graphical statics, elastic arch, redundant bar, gravity stiffness, statical indeterminacy, reciprocal figures, funicular polygon, statical determinacy, analytical statics, bar frameworks, elementary statics, supernumerary members, virtual velocities, flexibility coefficients, tubular bridges, unit tension, reciprocal theorem, reciprocal property Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Much progress in theory of structures during the nineteenth century has been ascribed, notably by Clapeyron (1857) in France and Pole (Jeaffreson, 1864) in Britain, to the coming of the railway era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supernumerary bars, supernumerary lines, horizontal deflexion, elastic centre, statique graphique, least work principle, vertical deflexion, graphical statics, elastic arch, redundant bar, gravity stiffness, statical indeterminacy, reciprocal figures, funicular polygon, statical determinacy, analytical statics, bar frameworks, elementary statics, supernumerary members, virtual velocities, flexibility coefficients, tubular bridges, unit tension, reciprocal theorem, reciprocal property Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Britannia Bridge, King's College, Philosophical Magazine, Daniel Bernoulli, Institution of Civil Engineers, Claxton Fidler, Homersham Cox New!
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