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Understanding the world's greatest structures : science and innovation from antiquity to modernity / Stephen Ressler.
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/Created
Chantilly, Va : Teaching Co., [2011], ©2011.
Description
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 204 pages ; 19 cm).
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TA658 .U64 2011g
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Subject(s)
Structural design
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Structural engineering
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Teacher
Ressler, Stephen J.
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Series
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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Great courses: Science & mathematics
Summary note
"Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity -- a marvelous learning experience that takes you around the world and reveals the stories behind the most famous bridges, churches, skyscrapers, towers, and other structures from thousands of years of history. These 24 lectures take you on a fascinating and richly illustrated tour that deftly blends history and science to create an unforgettable survey of our world's most remarkable structural masterpieces, one informed by the fundamentals of structural engineering and their underlying scientific principles."--Publisher.
Notes
Title from container.
"Course No. 1153"--Container.
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
System details
DVD, NTSC.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
Presenter, Stephen Ressler.
Contents
Disc 1. Learning to see and understand structure
The science of structure: forces in balance
Internal forces, stress, and strength
From wood to steel: properties of materials
Building up: columns and buckling
Building across: beams and bending.
Disc 2. Trusses: the power of the triangle
Cables and arches: the power of the parabola
Loads and structural systems
Egypt and Greece: pyramids to the Parthenon
The glory of Rome in arches and vaults.
Disc 3. Three great domes: Rome to the Renaissance
How iron and science transformed arch bridges
Suspension bridges: the battle of the cable
Suspension bridges: the challenge of wind
Great cantilever bridges: tragedy and triumph
The rise of iron- and steel-framed buildings.
Disc 4. The great skyscraper race
The beauty and versatility of modern concrete
Amazing thin shells: strength from curvature
Vast roof systems of iron and steel
The incredible lightness of tension structures
Strategies for understanding any structure.
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ISBN
1598037250
9781598037258
Publisher no.
ID1153A-01
OCLC
712202550
RCP
C - S
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