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020			_a9780511524677 (ebook)
020			_z9780521234191 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aTA646 _b.C45 1982
082	0	0	_a624.1/7/09034 _219
100	1		_aCharlton, T. M. _q(Thomas Malcolm), _d1923- _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA history of theory of structures in the nineteenth century / _cT.M. Charlton.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1982.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aIncludes index and bibliography.
520			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aStructural analysis (Engineering) _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521234191
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511524677
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