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Toward Structural Mechanics Through Wooden Bridges in France by Chiara Tardini PDF

By Chiara Tardini

Early functions of Navier’s beam conception to the rational layout of buildings are documented within the Annales of the French Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées and confer with the layout of 3 wood bridges inbuilt France within the 1840's. Revisiting those examples, the e-book presents documentation at the revolutionary institution of the recent layout strategy, in line with the speculation of structural mechanics instead of empirical wisdom. The bridges involved have been outfitted in accordance with the structural scheme patented by means of Ithiel city within the united states, witnessing the diffusion in Europe of the yank developments in bridge layout, circulated by way of the go back and forth reviews of French engineers from the Ecole. during the examination of French treatises discussing the growth of theoretical formulations in parallel with experimental findings within the 18th and nineteenth centuries, the e-book retraces besides the lengthy direction which ended in the formula of Navier’s conception. The appropriate clinical debate dealt almost always with the explicit case of wooden bridges; the textual content outlines a quick historical past of bridges inbuilt the Alpine quarter on the time, in keeping with unpublished iconographic fabrics from numerous eu archives.

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