Understanding the World's Greatest Structures : Science and Innovation From Antiquity to Modernity

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Call Number: DVD 624.177 Re Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"Course No. 1153"--Container.
24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture.
Disc 1. Learning to see and understand structure -- The science of structure: forces in balance -- Internal forces, stress, and strength -- From wood to steel: properties of materials -- Building up: columns and buckling -- Building across: beams and bending.
Disc 2. Trusses: the power of the triangle -- Cables and arches: the power of the parabola -- Loads and structural systems -- Egypt and Greece: pyramids to the Parthenon -- The glory of Rome in arches and vaults.
Disc 3. Three great domes: Rome to the Renaissance -- How iron and science transformed arch bridges -- Suspension bridges: the battle of the cable -- Suspension bridges: the challenge of wind -- Great cantilever bridges: tragedy and triumph -- The rise of iron- and steel-framed buildings.
Disc 4. The great skyscraper race -- The beauty and versatility of modern concrete -- Amazing thin shells: strength from curvature -- Vast roof systems of iron and steel -- The incredible lightness of tension structures -- Strategies for understanding any structure.
Presenter, Stephen Ressler.
DVD.

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