Bridges to Infinity

Bridges to Infinity
Author: Michael Guillen
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1983
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780874773453

This book is an endlessly fascinating journey through a mathematician's looking glass.

The Architecture of British Bridges

The Architecture of British Bridges
Author: Ronald Yee
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2021-01-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1785007955

During the Industrial Revolution, Britain was at the forefront of bridge innovation. Pioneering designers such as George and Robert Stephenson, Thomas Telford and Isambard Kingdom Brunel created Britain's rich bridge heritage that features many world firsts and we can learn much from their ground-breaking designs. Written by an experienced bridge architect, this book includes an introduction to bridge aesthetics; it gives an outline of British bridge development and advice on parapet treatment and bridge lighting. This book offers a comprehensive overview of how the best of British bridges marry aesthetic considerations with engineering ingenuity.

Towards A New Engineering - second edition

Towards A New Engineering - second edition
Author: Mentor Llunji
Publisher: MSPROJECT
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9940665024

This second-expanded edition of Towards A New Engineering is almost double in volume compared to the first edition, with several new chapters, new material and is more graphically oriented in order to guide readers more smoothly throughout the text. It is a collection of intimate reflections on structural engineering, its present and future. A testimony on many issues that ‘bothered’ the author during his years of designing structures. A critique and praise of built structures, structural design strategies, codes, the educational system, digital tools and much more. It’s a professional memoir dedicated to the unsung heroes of structural engineering. Not the unknown ones but the unrecognized ones. It’s an album of their thoughts and designs. This book is a rare possibility for structural engineers to consider the meaning of their profession, to meditate about it and its relation to, or distinction from, the practice of architecture. This is a collection of thoughts but not conclusions and theories. The book is recommended for all structural and architectural engineers, as well as for students of engineering and architecture, especially those who have chosen structural engineering as their lifelong profession. It is an eye-opening book that will provide a clearer, more realistic perspective while also offering an idea of where engineers will be in the future and how they should adapt to the time that comes.

Bridges

Bridges
Author: Judith Dupré
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0316473804

From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupréomes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle). Technological advances, structural daring, and artistic vision have propelled the evolution of bridge design around the world. This visual history of the world's landmark bridges has been thoroughly revised andupdated since its initial publication twenty-five years ago, and now showcases well-known classics as well as modern innovators. Bridges featured include: The Brooklyn Bridge (New York) Dany and-Kunshan Grand Bridge (China) Gateshead Millennium Bridge (England) The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) Zakim Bridge (Boston) Including all-new photographs and the latest cutting edgework from today's international superstars of architecture and engineering, Bridges covers two-thousand years of technological and aesthetic triumphs, making it the most thorough, authoritative, and gorgeous book on the subject-as dramatic in presentation as the structures it celebrates. Breathtaking photographs capture the bridges' details as well as their monumental scale; architectural drawings and plans invite you behind the scenes as new bridges take shape; and lively commentary on each structure explores its importance and places it in historical context. Throughout, informative profiles, features, and statistics make Bridges an invaluable reference as well as a visual feast.

Modern Earthquake Engineering

Modern Earthquake Engineering
Author: Junbo Jia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 859
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642318541

This book addresses applications of earthquake engineering for both offshore and land-based structures. It is self-contained as a reference work and covers a wide range of topics, including topics related to engineering seismology, geotechnical earthquake engineering, structural engineering, as well as special contents dedicated to design philosophy, determination of ground motions, shock waves, tsunamis, earthquake damage, seismic response of offshore and arctic structures, spatial varied ground motions, simplified and advanced seismic analysis methods, sudden subsidence of offshore platforms, tank liquid impacts during earthquakes, seismic resistance of non-structural elements, and various types of mitigation measures, etc. The target readership includes professionals in offshore and civil engineering, officials and regulators, as well as researchers and students in this field.

The British Isles

The British Isles
Author: Paul Anthony Jones
Publisher: Summersdale
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2012-11-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0857658158

From a Scottish waterfall three times the height of Niagara Falls to the last foreign invasion of Britain, The British Isles: A Trivia Gazetteer brings together hundreds of remarkable facts concerning different locations across Britain and Ireland. An As much an accessible and informative reference book as it is an entertaining miscellany.

Tell Me The Truth

Tell Me The Truth
Author: Felicia Heilgendorff
Publisher: Felicia Heilgendorff
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2023-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3982524008

No one told her about her twin. And she can’t remember. A single accident wiped out the first eighteen years of Katie’s life. Three years on and about to start her graduate degree in cognitive science, she still remembers nothing. Then her new flatmate, Sam, sends Katie a photo of herself. With no other flat options, Katie prays it’s just a joke. But Sam arrives in Denmark, a spitting image of Katie. SHE SAYS THEY’RE TWINS Sam won’t tell Katie anything about their past and when Katie demands to take a DNA test, Sam refuses. But if Sam’s supposed to believe Katie can’t remember, why won’t Katie believe they’re related? WHO’S LYING? A tense psychological thriller set in mainland Europe perfect for fans of Sally Hepworth, TM Logan and JP Delaney

I Have a Question

I Have a Question
Author: Macintosh Steele
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Alliance planets had waged war with the Consortium planets for years. They have finally agreed to a truce. Then a previously unknown planet was discovered and its location and possible strategic advantages caused a new ripple in the pending peace. A terrible solution was suggested: destroy the planet. A joint fleet to accomplish that awful result was on it way to carry out the mission. But residing on the planet, if it could be called a planet, was a mysterious Old Man who had plans of his own. After thwarting every attempt to destroy his planet, he gave everyone on both sides a tremendous lesson in humility and effectively stopped their war. The Old Man then takes the crew of the Star Cruiser Infinity on a new mission that no one could have ever anticipated, a mission to save their universe. Admiral Jenki learns much about his past that had remained hidden within him and Captain Edmonds dramatically reunites with his severely disabled brother. Together they travel to an unknown place to confront a gigantic new threat.

Xetonian Trades Iii

Xetonian Trades Iii
Author: J. Wayne Stillwell
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491816961

In 2061 a United Galactic Treaty Organization (UGATO) science vessel, MSB-4, was two years into a five year survey mission in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Its last movement report was five months late. The arrival of the ships automated emergency distress probe at its home base squawking the code Gamma-two confirmed UGATO's worst fears. Gamma-two meant the ship had been forcibly ceased and boarded. UGATO prepared for the worst. Was this another Unitasian aggressor like Emperor Raygan, a new alien threat or space pirates? "Xetonian Trades, The Reapers", is the latest saga in a fast paced science fiction trilogy about love and war and how intelligent life, human and alien, deals with survival in a hostile universe.