Bridgescape

Author : Frederick Gottemoeller
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047103778

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Bridgescape by Frederick Gottemoeller Pdf

Despite their utilitarian nature, many bridges constitute the most visually stunning structures of our cities and towns. In Bridgescape: The Art of Designing Bridges, Frederick Gottemoeller brings the aesthetic aspects of bridge design within the grasp of all architects, engineers, and designers. This innovative approach challenges the reader to design and build bridges that are both functional and pleasing to the eye. Gottemoeller demystifies the creative process by breaking down the bridge into its most fundamental elements-line, form, and placement in the site, as well as color, texture, and ornamentation. The author shows how to plan bridges that take into account symbolism, historical meaning, and our ability to understand the visual world. But Bridgescape is more than an introduction to the aesthetic and engineering aspects of building a bridge. The author also discusses the dynamics of involving local authorities and the community in bridge design. From highway to pedestrian bridges, this book offers realistic and enlightening solutions for incorporating visually distinctive bridges within real-world situations and contexts. Working from the "skeleton" of the bridge-its girders, piers, and abutments-to its decorative features-color, carving, and texture-the author offers practical, easy-to-understand guidelines that can be applied to even the smallest of bridge design projects. Just a few key factors can profoundly enhance a bridge's appearance. Distinct from the technical books that separate architecture from engineering, Bridgescape offers a refreshing survey of the power of aesthetics in modern bridge design. A sixteen-page color insert enlivens the text, which is generously illustrated with over 280 photographs and drawings of bridges. Both engineers and architects will find Bridgescape an indispensable reference volume and an inspiring introduction to the aesthetic side of bridge engineering.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : MINN:31951D03758403Y

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Raising the Bar by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce Pdf

Author : Marshall, Stewart,Taylor, Wal,Yu, Xinghuo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781591407911

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Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology by Marshall, Stewart,Taylor, Wal,Yu, Xinghuo Pdf

"This encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, and applications of ICT in support of economic and regional developments around the globe"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Precast concrete
ISBN : UCSD:31822033937285

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PCI Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Harbors
ISBN : SRLF:A0003185881

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Report of the Chief of Engineers by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066797816

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Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066799030

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The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124517744

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Cumulated Index to the Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Biography
ISBN : WISC:89089032007

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Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wai-Fah Chen,Lian Duan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439852071

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Bridge Engineering Handbook, Second Edition by Wai-Fah Chen,Lian Duan Pdf

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of The Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subject. 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, as well as the 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. The first book, Fundamentals contains 22 chapters, and covers aesthetics, planning, design specifications, structural modeling, fatigue and fracture. What’s New in the Second Edition: • Covers the basic concepts, theory and special topics of bridge engineering • Includes seven new chapters: Finite Element Method, High Speed Railway Bridges, Concrete Design, Steel Design, Structural Performance Indicators for Bridges, High Performance Steel, and Design and Damage Evaluation Methods for Reinforced Concrete Beams under Impact Loading • Provides substantial updates to existing chapters, including Conceptual Design, Bridge Aesthetics: Achieving Structural Art in Bridge Design, and Application of Fiber Reinforced Polymers in Bridges 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.

Author : Wai-Fah Chen,Lian Duan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439852347

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Bridge Engineering Handbook by Wai-Fah Chen,Lian Duan Pdf

Over 140 experts, 14 countries, and 89 chapters are represented in the second edition of The Bridge Engineering Handbook. This extensive collection highlights bridge engineering specimens from around the world, contains detailed information on bridge engineering, and thoroughly explains the concepts and practical applications surrounding the subjec

Author : Cynthia Wall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226467979

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Grammars of Approach by Cynthia Wall Pdf

In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.

Author : Takayuki Tatsumi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822388012

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Full Metal Apache by Takayuki Tatsumi Pdf

Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, Tatsumi looks at the work of artists from both sides of the Pacific: fiction writers and poets, folklorists and filmmakers, anime artists, playwrights, musicians, manga creators, and performance artists. Tatsumi shows how, over the past twenty years or so, writers and artists have openly and exuberantly appropriated materials drawn from East and West, from sources both high and low, challenging and unraveling the stereotypical images Japan and America have of one another. Full Metal Apache introduces English-language readers to a vast array of Japanese writers and performers and considers their work in relation to the output of William Gibson, Thomas Pynchon, H. G. Wells, Jack London, J. G. Ballard, and other Westerners. Tatsumi moves from the poetics of metafiction to the complex career of Madame Butterfly stories and from the role of the Anglo-American Lafcadio Hearn in promoting Japanese folklore within Japan during the nineteenth century to the Japanese monster Godzilla as an embodiment of both Japanese and Western ideas about the Other. Along the way, Tatsumi develops original arguments about the self-fashioning of “Japanoids” in the globalist age, the philosophy of “creative masochism” inherent within postwar Japanese culture, and the psychology of “Mikadophilia” indispensable for the construction of a cyborg identity. Tatsumi’s exploration of the interplay between Japanese and American cultural productions is as electric, ebullient, and provocative as the texts and performances he analyzes.

Author : Samuel E. Abrams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674545809

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Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams Pdf

America’s commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. A veteran teacher and administrator, Samuel E. Abrams examines the rise of market forces in public education and reveals how a commercial mindset has taken over. For decades, Milton Friedman and his disciples contended that private markets could deliver better schooling than governments. In the 1990s, this belief was put to the test by Edison Schools and other for-profit educational management organizations (EMOs). Edison grew rapidly, running schools in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and many other cities across the country. Yet disappointing academic and financial outcomes soon pushed the company and its competitors to the margins. The focus of EMOs on efficiency and results nevertheless found expression in federal policy with No Child Left Behind in 2002 and Race to the Top in 2009. The new ethos also defined nonprofit charter management organizations (CMOs) like KIPP that surfaced in the wake of EMOs and flourished. But the dependence of CMOs on philanthropists, tireless teachers, and students capable of abiding by rigid expectations limits their reach. Abrams argues that while the commercial mindset sidesteps fundamental challenges, public schools should adopt lessons from the business world. Citing foreign practices, he recommends raising teacher salaries to attract and retain talent, conferring more autonomy on educators to build ownership, and employing sampling techniques rather than universal assessments to gauge student progress.

Author : António J. Reis,José J. Oliveira Pedro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118927649

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Bridge Design by António J. Reis,José J. Oliveira Pedro Pdf

A comprehensive guide to bridge design Bridge Design - Concepts and Analysis provides a unique approach, combining the fundamentals of concept design and structural analysis of bridges in a single volume. The book discusses design solutions from the authors’ practical experience and provides insights into conceptual design with concrete, steel or composite bridge solutions as alternatives. Key features: Principal design concepts and analysis are dealt with in a unified approach. Execution methods and evolution of the static scheme during construction are dealt with for steel, concrete and composite bridges. Aesthetics and environmental integration of bridges are considered as an issue for concept design. Bridge analysis, including modelling and detail design aspects, is discussed for different bridge typologies and structural materials. Specific design verification aspects are discussed on the basis of present design rules in Eurocodes. The book is an invaluable guide for postgraduate students studying bridge design, bridge designers and structural engineers.