عنوان

Why buildings fall down :

شابک

0393033562

شابک

9780393033564

شماره

b510758

عنوان اصلي

Why buildings fall down :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

how structures fail /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori ; illustrations by Kevin Woest

وضعيت ويراست

1st ed

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

W.W. Norton,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1992

نام خاص و کميت اثر

334 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes index

متن يادداشت

The first structural failure -- Miracle on thirty-fourth street -- Will the Pantheon stand up forever -- For lack of redundancy -- Big bangs -- The day the earth shook -- Galloping Gertie -- When metals tire -- Thruways to eternity -- The weaknesses of mother earth -- Valley of tears -- The house of cards -- Structural dermatology -- Old-age death -- The worst structural disaster in the United States -- The politics of destruction -- The structure of the law -- Conclusion: can we prevent future failures?

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Once upon a time, seven wonders of the world stood tall and brilliant and, it must have seemed, would stand forever, impervious to time and gravity. Now only one remains--the pyramid at Khufu, in the Egyptian desert near Cairo. All of the others have fallen down. Modern technologies, computerized designs, and new materials have minimized structural failures nearly to the vanishing point. Even so, we can learn from ancient as well as recent history. Why Buildings Fall Down chronicles the how and why of the most important and interesting structural failures in history and especially in the twentieth century. Not even all of the pyramids are still with us. The Pyramid of Meidum has shed 2,500,000 tons of limestone and continues to disintegrate. Beginning there our authors, both world-renowned structural engineers, take us on a guided tour of enlightening structural failures--buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state of the art Hartford Civic Arena, from the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake damage of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco, the Connecticut Thruway bridge collapse at Mianus, and one of the most fatal structural disasters in American history: the fall of the Hyatt Regency ballroom walkways in Kansas City. Buildings have fallen throughout history whether made of wood, steel, reinforced concrete, or stone. But these failures do respect the laws of physics. All are the result of static load or dynamic forces, earthquakes, temperature changes, uneven settlements of the soil, or other unforeseen forces. A few are even due to natural phenomena that engineers and scientists are still unable to explain or predict. The stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are, finally, very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces, all coming together in sometimes dramatic and always instructive ways in the places where we live and work and have our lives

موضوع مستند نشده

Building failures

موضوع مستند نشده

Structural failures

موضوع مستند نشده

Constructions-- Effondrement

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Levy, Matthys

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Salvadori, Mario,1907-1997

تاريخ عمليات

20150624081243.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y