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Engineering · Civil Engineering

Bridge Engineering

A topic within Civil Engineering, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Engineering.

Reading on Bridge Engineering

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Report1941

The Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Othmar H. Ammann, Theodore von Kármán & Glenn B. Woodruff

Concludes the bridge was sound against every static load then required and was destroyed by aerodynamic forces nobody had thought to check at that scale — the founding document of bridge aeroelasticity.

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Engineering · Civil Engineering
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Book1847

A Work on Bridge Building

Squire Whipple

Applies statics directly to truss bridges for the first time, deriving the force in every member algebraically instead of by rule of thumb, and argues a bridge should be designed from calculated loads rather than copied from a builder's precedent.

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