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Understanding the world's greatest structures science and innovation from antiquity to modernity  Cover Image DVD DVD

Understanding the world's greatest structures [videorecording] : science and innovation from antiquity to modernity / Stephen Ressler.

Ressler, Stephen J., (lecturer.). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781598037258
  • ISBN: 1598037250
  • ISBN: 9781598037265
  • ISBN: 1598037269
  • Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches + 1 course guidebook (vi, 204 pages ; 19 cm) and 1 transcript book (vi, 490 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
  • Publisher: Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Co., 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from container.
"Course no. 1153"--Container.
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Participant or Performer Note:
Presenter, Stephen Ressler.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Subject: Structural design.
Structural engineering.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Prince Rupert Library.

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