Main entry:

Eaton, Leonard K.

Title & Author:

Hardy Cross : American engineer / Leonard K. Eaton.

Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2006.

Description:

xiv, 120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114) and index.
1 The Preparatory Years, 1885-1921 1 -- 2 The Creative Years at Illinois, 1921-37 18 -- 3 The Years at Yale, 1937-51, and Retirement 53 -- Appendix B Selected and Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of Hardy Cross 93 -- Appendix C Hardy Cross's Contribution to Structural Analysis / Emory Kemp 101.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Leonard K. Eaton's Hardy Cross: American Engineer presents a close study of a key figure in the history of technology and the first biography of one of America's most brilliant civil engineers. Eaton examines Hardy Cross's ideas, training, his work, and his teaching, demonstrating how his achievements represent a pivotal moment in the history of structural engineering."
"During Cross's tenure at the University of Illinois (1921-37), he developed the "moment distribution method," allowing mathematicians to calculate statistically indeterminate frames of reinforced concrete for the first time. Later known as the Cross method, this achievement made possible the calculations that allowed for safe and efficient designs from reinforced concrete - a new material at the time - and the subsequent architectural revolution."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0252029895 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780252029899 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cross, Hardy, 1885-1959.
Engineers United States Biography.
Ingénieurs États-Unis Biographies.
Engineers
Ingenieur
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258994
Call No.: BIB 189844
Status: Available