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Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures
The Brooklyn Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, Sydney's Harbour Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate--bridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier.
In Bridges, eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive...more
In Bridges, eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive...more
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published
March 1st 2010
by Oxford University Press, USA
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This book was not at all what I thought it would be. There is actual engineering (with math, requiring algebra to understand) in this book. Despite that fact, it's not for civil engineering students: it's too elementary. I thought it would be more "entertaining" about the science and more expository about the art of bridges. But it was really neither. The author is clearly erudite, and writes well. Too bad he just doesn't have any clue about what to write. There is an odd theme throughout the bo...more
I understand why another reviewer was very disappointed in this book. But it was the perfect introduction to bridge engineering for me. Being a translator, I need to be able to understand any topic fairly rapidly. Some of my work had to do with bridges. In order to do a good job, I needed to read about bridges, but in a format that would be both accessible to laymen and technical enough to understand what the heck is going on in the bridge, what the structures are made of, how it works, how it h...more
I really did like this book a lot. I am a student very seriously considering going into structural engineering and, while the math and science of the book was elementary, it was lively, well written, and had much interesting history. I greatly enjoyed reading it and I would highly recommend it. My ONLY issue with it was the last chapter. I found it both boring and confusing, as well as unnecessary. It put a damper (pardon the pun!) on an otherwise delightful experience.
I thought it would be a good idea to read this book since we are studying bridges in geometry and are suppose to create our own bridges with a design and everything. This book was terribly boring I have to stay and so difficult to read. The only good thing that I got out of this book was that it made a good source for my research in bridge class. This book explored how a bridge works and talks about multiple bridges in the US
Jun 29, 2010
Tobi
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Just couldn't get into this one right now.
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