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Terms and conditions applyWhy Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
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Format: Book
Pages: 346
Publisher: W W Norton
Date Published: Jan 2003
Stock Code: 6495
ISBN: 9780393311525
Binding: Paperback
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Although modern technologies and new materials have greatly decreased the number of structural failures in today's world, buildings still fall down-- and whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses, it is front-page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits. Now two world-renowned structural engineers take us on an enlightening guided tour through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from ancient time to the present.
The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range frm the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake dmamge of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco, to the Connecticut Thruway bridge collapse at Mianus, and one of the most fatal structural disasters in American history: the fall of the Hyatt Regency ballroom walkways in Kansas City.
New to this edition is a chapter on how terrorism has become a threat in the collapse of buildings, as witnessed at the World Trade Center.
The authors examine buildings of all kinds, from ancient domes like Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to the state-of-the-art Hartford Civic Arena. Their subjects range frm the man-caused destruction of the Parthenon to the earthquake dmamge of 1989 in Armenia and San Francisco, to the Connecticut Thruway bridge collapse at Mianus, and one of the most fatal structural disasters in American history: the fall of the Hyatt Regency ballroom walkways in Kansas City.
New to this edition is a chapter on how terrorism has become a threat in the collapse of buildings, as witnessed at the World Trade Center.
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