Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall down (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Structures For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, this book aims to ease your anxiety and answer your questions by communicating engineering's principles in accessible, witty prose.
Full description- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
- Published: 10 July 2003
- Format: Paperback 424 pages
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- Categories: Architectural Structure & Design | Popular Science | Engineering: General | Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building | Structural Engineering
- ISBN 13: 9780306812835 ISBN 10: 0306812835
- Sales rank: 21,769
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Full description for Structures
"Rich and readable...personal, witty and ironic." -- Scientific American . For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.
