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  title info:
    title: History of the modern suspension bridge
    sub title: solving the dilemma between economy and stiffness
  title info:
    title: Kindai tsuribashi no rekishi. English
  title info:
    title: ASCE Library
  name:
    name part: Kawada, Tadaki
    name part: 1935-2022
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Scott, Richard
    name part: 1956 February 10-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    place:
      place term: Reston, VA
    publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
    date issued: ©2010
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: jpn
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: When he was thinking about how to build a bridge across the River Tweed, Sir Samuel Brown stopped while observing a spider's web. Right at this time he discovered the suspension bridge. --Charles Bender, 1868. The English translation of Tadaki Kawada's landmark book traces the modern suspension bridge from its earliest appearance in Western civilization only 200 years ago to the enormous Akashi Kaikyo and Storebaelt bridges completed at the end of the twentieth century. This book examines the conflicts, the bridge collapses, the colorful personalities, and the advancements that have shaped the development of the suspension bridge. From John Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge to the legendary rivalry between Othmar Ammann and David Steinman, from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940, which Kawada explores in depth, to the closing of London's Millennium Bridge just three days after its opening, this book is a complete history of the modern suspension bridge--with a focus on the two essential factors in suspension bridge design, economy and stiffness, which are always in competition with one another. How do engineers reinforce the suspension bridge against the elements of wind and traffic, without sacrificing economy? This book will appeal to anyone interested in engineering history and suspension bridges. Practicing engineers will find the charts, tables, and design formulas especially valuable.
  table of contents: The emergence of modern suspension bridges -- Trials and errors in Europe -- North American engineers develop the rigid suspension bridge -- Emergence of the deflection theory and its development -- Ambush: the dynamics of wind -- New developments beyond North America -- Two record-breaking suspension bridges -- Epilogue: no end to the dilemma.
  note: Tadaki Kawada ; translated by Harukazu Ohashi ; edited by Richard Scott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Suspension bridges
    topic: Design and construction
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bridges
    topic: Design and construction
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Ponts suspendus
    topic: Conception et construction
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Ponts
    topic: Conception et construction
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Civil
    topic: Bridges
  subject:
    topic: Bridges
    topic: Design and construction
  subject:
    topic: Suspension bridges
    topic: Design and construction
  classification: TG400 .K34213 2010eb
  classification: 624.2/309
  related item:
    title info:
      title: History of the modern suspension bridge
    title info:
      title: Kindai tsuribashi no rekishi. English
    name:
      name part: Kawada, Tadaki, 1935-
    origin info:
      publisher: Reston, Va. : American Society of Civil Engineers, ©2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009049073
    identifier: (OCoLC)476835151
  identifier: 9780784472682
  identifier: 0784472688
  identifier: 9780784410189
  identifier: 0784410186
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  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 091207
    record change date: 20230129214436.4
    record identifier: in00004644663
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng