Understanding the world's greatest structures science and innovation from antiquity to modernity
"Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity -- a marvelous learning experience that takes you around the world and reveals the stories behind the most famous bridges, churches, skyscrapers, towers, and other structures from thousands o...
Other Authors: | Leven, Jon. (Director), Scarbrough, Wendy. (Director), Blandford, James. (Producer), Ressler, Stephen J. |
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Format: | Videos DVD |
Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va :
Teaching Company,
[2011]
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Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Engineering.
Understanding the world's greatest structures : science and innovation from antiquity to modernity, course guidebook. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The rise and fall of the Gothic Cathedral.
- 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.