About this course
In this engineering course you will learn how to analyze bridges from three perspectives:
1. Efficiency = calculations of forces/stresses
2. Economy = evaluation of societal context and cost
3. Elegance = form/appearance based on engineering principles, not decoration
With a focus on some significant bridges built since the industrial revolution, the course illustrates how engineering is a creative discipline and can become art. We also show the influence of the economic and social context in bridge design and the interplay between forces and form.
This course illustrates:
• How engineering is a creative discipline and can become art
• The influence of the economic and social context in vault design
• The interplay between forces and form
These contents are from
The Art of structural Engineering Vaults by the Princetonx MOOC program lectured by Maria Garlock [Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering]
The EDx link: www.edx.org/co...
Recommended books link:
The Tower and the bridge: The Art of Structural Engineering: amzn.to/3E35GAb
Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures:
amzn.to/3yzXSF7
Structure as Architecture:
amzn.to/3GJkwxl
Static and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction:
amzn.to/3GTyyN8
Building the Golden Gate Bridge: An Interactive Engineering Adventure
amzn.to/3yU5AtN
Bridges : A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans:
amzn.to/3egK3C5
The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
amzn.to/3H4M7JT
Link it! Masterpieces of Bridge Design
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7 окт 2024
