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Rivet Boy
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Barbara Henderson
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Based on real people and events, Rivet Boy blends fact and fiction
to tell the story of one boy's role in the building of the iconic
Forth Rail Bridge-Scotland's greatest man-made wonder-in 1889. When
12-year-old John Nicol gets a job at the Forth Bridge construction
site, he knows it's dangerous. Four boys have already fallen from
the bridge into the Forth below. But John has no choice-with his
father gone, he must provide an income for his family-even if he is
terrified of heights. John finds comfort in the new Carnegie
library, his friend Cora and his squirrel companion, Rusty. But
when he is sent to work in Cain Murdoch's Rivet Gang, John must
find the courage to climb, to face his fears, and to stand up to
his evil boss.
This deeply researched book tells of Brunel's solution to getting
the Cornwall Railway across the very considerable obstacle of the
River Tamar at Saltash was the magnificent Royal Albert Bridge. Its
unique design and handsome proportions make it one of his most
outstanding works.
Up-to-date coverage on all aspects of designing, building, maintaining, and evaluating Movable Bridge Engineering is the most comprehensive reference on movable bridges published in the past sixty years. This new, highly visual resource addresses the engineering design and construction technology of new movable bridges, as well as the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing ones. Movable Bridge Engineering is organized into six functional parts from an engineering perspective: - Selection
- Design
- Construction
- Maintenance
- Inspection
- Evaluation of existing bridges
All structural issues and relevant mechanical and electrical systems for vertical lift, swing, and bascule bridges (for highway and railway use) are covered, including machinery, applications, reversing loads, traffic maintenance, and many other issues relevant to these specialized bridges. With hundreds of informative photographs and illustrations, Movable Bridge Engineering is the most complete, in-depth guide for everyone working with bridges of this type.
How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the
structure and purpose of bridges. It is a guide to reading the
structural clues embedded in every bridge that allows their variety
and ingenuity to be better appreciated. Small enough to carry in
your pocket and serious enough to provide real answers, this
comprehensive guide analyses and explores all types of bridges from
around the world from the first millennium to the present day. The
book also explores fundamental concepts of bridge design, key
materials and engineering techniques whilst providing an accessible
visual guide with intelligent text, using detailed illustrations
and cross-sections of technical features.
LOAD RATING HIGHWAY BRIDGES In accordance with Load and Resistance
Factor Rating Method First Edition The first comprehensive text
introducing the background theory along with the practical
procedure of load rating highway bridges with the state-of-the-art
Load and Resistance Factor Rating (LRFR) method. With its
simplicity and complete contents on this subject, this is an
indispensable text for both students and practicing engineers. The
safety of bridges is essential to the traveling public. To ensure
that bridges in our highway system function safely and serve
properly, engineers need to inspect and assess the live load
carrying capacity of the bridges. Based on the results of
inspection and evaluation, decisions are made on load restriction,
repair, retrofit or replacement. Load rating, one of the critical
tasks in this decision-making process, uses either an analytical
method or non-destructive load testing to determine the live load
carrying capacity of a bridge. This is a book solely concentrated
on bridge load rating by using analytical load rating methods, with
a focus on the LRFR method. The primary purpose of this book is to
provide the basic concept of load rating highway bridges in terms
of the LRFR method. The target readers are practicing engineers who
want to acquire fundamental knowledge of the LRFR method. Bearing
that in mind, the author attempts to strike a balance between
theory and how-to. Engineers who are conducting or will perform
load ratings of bridges can use this text as a reference in
supplement to the AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation (MBE). This
book can also serve as a textbook or supplemental material for a
senior level undergraduate or graduate course in bridge design and
load rating. This text is divided into three major sections. The
first section contains a brief introduction to bridge load rating
(Chapter 1) and fundamentals of structural failure and structural
reliability theory (Chapter 2). After completing this section, re
Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life Extension
contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2014, the
Seventh International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and
Management (IABMAS 2014), held in Shanghai, China, July 7-11, 2014.
This set consists of a book of abstracts and a DVD containing the
full papers of 396 contributions presented at IABMAS 2014,
including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, nine Keynote Lectures, and 386
technical papers from about 40 countries.
All major aspects of bridge maintenance, safety, management and
life extension are addressed including advanced materials, aging of
bridges, assessment and evaluation, bridge codes, bridge
diagnostics, bridge management systems, damage identifi cation,
design for durability, deterioration modeling, earthquake and
accidental loadings, fatigue, fi eld testing, health monitoring,
load models, life-cycle assessment, maintenance strategies,
non-destructive testing, prediction of future traffi c demands,
repair and replacement, residual service life, safety and
serviceability, service life prediction, and sustainable bridges,
among others.
This set provides an up-to-date overview of the fi eld of bridge
engineering, as well as the recent signifi cant contributions to
the process of making rational decisions in bridge maintenance,
safety, management, sustainability, monitoring, long life strategy
and resources optimization deployment for the purpose of enhancing
the welfare of society. It will serve as a valuable reference to
all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems,
including students, researchers, engineers, consultants and
contractors from all areas of bridge engineering.
Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented
in the second edition of the Bridge Engineering Handbook. This
extensive collection provides detailed information on bridge
engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical
applications surrounding the subject, and also highlights bridges
from around the world.
Published in five books: Fundamentals, Superstructure Design,
Substructure Design, Seismic Design, and Construction and
Maintenance, this new edition provides numerous worked-out examples
that give readers step-by-step design procedures, includes
contributions by leading experts from around the world in their
respective areas of bridge engineering, contains 26 completely new
chapters, and updates most other chapters. It offers design
concepts, specifications, and practice, and presents various types
of bridges. The text includes over 2,500 tables, charts,
illustrations, and photos. The book covers new, innovative and
traditional methods and practices; explores rehabilitation,
retrofit, and maintenance; and examines seismic design and building
materials.
This text is an ideal reference for practicing bridge engineers
and consultants (design, construction, maintenance), and can also
be used as a reference for students in bridge engineering
courses.
Bridges are one of the most important artefacts constructed by man,
the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development
of trade and civilisation throughout the world. Their construction
has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology,
leading to bigger spans and the use of new materials. Their
failures, too, whether from an inadequate understanding of
engineering principles or as a result of natural catastrophes or
warfare, have often caused immense hardship as a result of lost
lives or broken communications. In this book, a sister publication
to his earlier An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Pen & Sword
2019), David McFetrich gives brief descriptions of some 1200
bridges from more than 170 countries around the world. They
represent a wide range of different types of structure (such as
beam, cantilever, stayed and suspension bridges). Although some of
the pictures are of extremely well-known structures, many are not
so widely recognisable and a separate section of the book includes
more than seventy lists of bridges with distinctly unusual
characteristics in their design, usage and history.
Examining the fundamental differences between design and analysis,
Robert Benaim explores the close relationship between aesthetic and
technical creativity and the importance of the intuitive, more
imaginative qualities of design that every designer should employ
when designing a structure. Aiding designers of concrete bridges in
developing an intuitive understanding of structural action, this
book encourages innovation and the development of engineering
architecture. Simple, relevant calculation techniques that should
precede any detailed analysis are summarized. Construction methods
used to build concrete bridge decks and substructures are detailed
and direct guidance on the choice and the sizing of different types
of concrete bridge deck is given. In addition guidance is provided
on solving recurring difficult problems of detailed design and
realistic examples of the design process are provided. This book
enables concrete bridge designers to broaden their scope in design
and provides an analysis of the necessary calculations and methods.
This set of book of abstracts (1004 pp) and searchable full-paper
CD-ROM (>3000 pp) set contains over 350 contributions by
international experts that were presented at the Second
International Conference of the International Association for
Bridge Maintenance in Kyoto, Japan, 2004. All major aspects of
bridge maintenance, safety, management and cost are addressed,
including assessment and evaluation, bridge codes, bridge
diagnostics, bridge management systems, durability, deterioration
modeling, emerging technologies, field testing, financial planning,
health monitoring, high performance materials, inspection, loads,
maintenance strategies, new technical and material concepts,
nondestructive testing, rehabilitation, reliability and risk
management, repair, replacement, safety and serviceability, service
life prediction, strengthening, and whole life costing, among
others. A valuable contribution to the process of making better and
more rational decisions in bridge maintenance, safety management
and cost for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society
intended for researchers and professionals in bridge, structural,
geotechnical and construction engineering.
This book provides a detailed summary of bridge loads from an international perspective. The authors cover all aspects from the methodology behind the calculation of bridge loads and the complex interactions between loads and bridges, to economic considerations. A wide range of bridge loads are covered, including highway vehicle loads, pedestrian loads, railing loads and wind loads. The structure and design of bridges to accommodate these loads are examined and examples provided. Different modes of failure and current codes of practice are also covered. This book is unique in its exclusive examination of the loading and will be a useful handbook for structural engineers and designers involved in bridge construction. It is also recommended to senior undergraduates and postgraduates of structural engineering and bridge design. eBook available with sample pages: 0203185927
Modern structural engineering surprises us with the mastery and
certainty with which it plans and carries out daring projects, such
as the most recent metal or concrete bridges, whether they be
suspension or arch bridges. On the other hand, little is yet known
about the state of knowledge of construction science and techniques
which, well before the arrival of modern methods based on the
mechanics of deformable continua, made it possible in the past to
erect the vaulted masonry structures rthat we have inherited. The
fact that these have lasted through many centuries to our time, and
are still in a fairly good state of conservation, makes them
competitive, as far as stability and durability are concerned, with
those constructed in other materials. Although it is known that the
equilibrium of the arch is guaranteed by any funicular whatsoever
of the loads, contained inside the profile of an arch, finding the
unique solution is not such a certainty. In other words, the
problem of the equilibrium of vaulted structures is 'Poleni's
problem', the one for which the Venetian scientist was able to give
an exemplary solution on the occasion of the assessment of the dome
of St. Peter's. Arch Bridges focuses on the main aspects of the
debate about the masonry arch bridge: History of structural
mechanics and construction, theoretical models, analysis for
assessment, numerical methods, experimental and non-destructive
testing, maintenance and repair are the topics of the Conference.
The breadth and variety of the contributions presented and
discussed by leading experts from many countries make this volume
an authoritative source of up-to-date information.
Bridges need substantial investment in maintenance and upgrading if
they are to function effectively throughout their planned life.
This volume provides an overview of the latest international
thinking on cost-effective engineering management of bridge
structures. It forms the Proceedings of the Third International
Conference on the subject held at the University of Surrey, 1996.
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