Main entry:
Peters, Tom F. (Tom Frank), 1941-
Title & Author:
Transitions in engineering : Guillaume Henri Dufour and the early 19th century cable suspension bridges / Tom F. Peters ; with a foreword by Andŕe Corboz.
Publication:
Basel [Switzerland] ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, 1987.
Description:
244 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-232) and index.
1 Some basic issues -- Technical and scientific thought -- From 'overlay' to 'system' -- Structural engineering and architecture -- The method of examination -- Some questions -- 2 Prehistory -- The earliest suspension types -- Primitive types -- The first catenary walkways -- Construction in cane and bamboo -- From the bamboo cable to the wrought iron chain -- Thang-stong rGyal-po -- The iron he used -- Variant Chinese chain bridges and stiffened, horizontal decks -- Information spreads to the West -- Early Western development -- Wire cables -- 3 Background -- Geneva and the transmission of engineering information to the French-speaking world 1789-1815 -- French access to information in the immediate post-war period -- Evolution of method and thought in French engineering education -- Development of statistics -- Navier: the scientific and technological modes of thought -- Graphic statics -- Strength of materials -- The education of Guillaume Henri Dufour -- 4 Genesis of the wire cable bridge -- The Seguin brothers -- The bridge at Annonay -- Planning the Saint Antoine Bridge in Geneva -- Marc Seguin's letter and the first project for the Geneva bridge -- The problem of the catenary and its role in engineering research -- Marc Seguin's statics -- Marc Seguin's knowledge of engineering method -- Dufour's proposal -- Examination of wire in preparation for erection -- Dufour's wire experiments -- Wire experiments by the Seguin brothers -- Availability of wire -- Relative neglect of Dufour's role in French publications -- Test model for the Saint Antoine Bridge -- Ignoring the problem of resonance -- The Saint Antoine Bridge -- Anchoring the cables -- The manufacture of the cables compared to the Seguin method -- The odd cable connection -- Suspenders and stays -- Imported iron? -- Loads -- 5 The establishment of a structural type -- Bridges at Liancourt, Passy and elsewhere in the environs of Paris -- Test bridge at Vienna -- Books begin to appear on the subject -- Dufour's contribution to the further development -- The Drac bridge at Grenoble -- The safety factor -- Further weaknesses in the proposal -- Two bridges by the Seguins -- Dufour's second structure: the Pâquis Bridge -- A simpler method of cable manufacture -- Connecting the cables -- Coupling the suspenders -- Research on friction -- Loading the Pâquis Bridge -- The novel problem of expansion -- More proposals than structures: Dufour continues to design -- Coulouvrenière Bridge over the Rhone -- Valentin Bridge over the Po River at Turin -- Ile aux Barques Bridge -- Coulouvrenière Bridge near Saint Jean's church -- Bridge over the Arve River -- Peney Bridge -- 6 French development and their influence up to the catastrophe of 1850 -- Controversy between adherents of cable and of chain construction -- Vicat and the building of the Marie Bridge at Argentat -- Movable cable bearings and their problems -- Vicat's wire tests and complaints about the quality of bar iron -- Detail problems of cable manufacture -- A first approach to cable spinning -- Concrete curing and load limitation -- The report of 1831 on the state of the Rhone bridges -- Aerial cable spinning -- Cement as protection against rust -- The wire cable bridge comes of age: the Grand Pont Suspendu in Fribourg -- Joseph Chaley -- Building the world's largest span -- Alternatives, aerial cable spinning and the endless cable system -- French methods cross the Atlantic -- Tensile structures in building construction -- The collapse of the Basse-Chaîne Bridge -- 7 A truncated development; the underspanned suspension -- La Caille Bridge -- Underspanned proposal for Fribourg -- Reasons for awarding the contract to Chaley -- Navier's report -- Micklewood Bridge -- Bergues Bridge -- Preliminary versions in timber -- Connections -- Arch bridges in cast-iron -- Third proposal in cast-iron -- Consultation with Navier and a proposal by Telford -- The underspanned Bergues Bridge -- The structure -- Calculation and erection -- Planning the building process in detail -- Testing the structure -- Why chains? -- The Bel-Air Bridge at la Coulouvrenière -- Proposal for an Aar Bridge at Aarau -- Conclusion -- 8 Annotated bibliography and index -- Abbreviations -- Books, major journals and articles -- Manuscripts -- Acknowledgements.
ISBN:
0817619291 (Boston)
9780817619299 (Boston)
3764319291 (Basel)
9783764319298 (Basel)
Subject:
Dufour, Guillaume Henri, 1787-1875.
Dufour, Guillaume Henri.
Suspension bridges History 19th century.
Ponts suspendus Histoire 19e siècle.
Suspension bridges.
Hängebrücke
Hangbruggen.
Engenharia civil (estruturas)
Historia.
Bridges, Suspension History 19th century.
Dufour, Guillaume Henri 1787-1875
Holdings:
Location: Library main 29110
Call No.: ID:88-B148
Status: Available
