ASCE 9780784405420 2001
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In the Wake of Tacoma
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| ASCE | 2001 | 415 |
Richard Scott provides the first comprehensive treatment of the changes that the 1940 collapse of the frist Tacoma Narrows Bridge has imposed on the design of suspension bridges.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 6 | Table of Contents |
| 12 | Foreword |
| 14 | Acknowledgments |
| 18 | Introduction |
| 24 | 1.0 Turbulent Beginnings 1.1 Roots in Antiquity |
| 25 | 1.2 Modern Beginnings in America and Europe |
| 30 | 1.3 Maturity in America—Ellet and Roebling |
| 36 | 2.0 A New Found Confidence 2.1 Emerging Concepts |
| 40 | 2.2 A Proliferation of Concepts |
| 45 | 2.3 A Generation of Enormous Spans |
| 52 | 3.0 The Plate Girder Suspension Bridge 3.1 European Origins |
| 54 | 3.2 Early Applications in America |
| 56 | 3.3 Steinman and the Thousand Island and Deer Isle bridges |
| 60 | 3.4 Ammann’s Bronx-Whitestone Bridge |
| 64 | 4.0 Epiphany at the Tacoma Narrows 4.1 The Rise and Fall of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
| 76 | 4.2 The Aftermath of the Collapse |
| 78 | 4.3 Reminders of History |
| 81 | 4.4 Back to the Future |
| 86 | 4.5 The Autopsy Results |
| 90 | 4.6 The Carmody Board and the Dynamic Role of Wind |
| 94 | 5.0 A Difficult Rebirth 5.1 The Insurance Battles, Replacing Gertie, the Dismantling |
| 96 | 5.2 A Litany of Theories—the Cable Truss and Others |
| 100 | 5.3 The Advisory Board on the Investigation of Suspension Bridges |
| 105 | 5.4 Steinman Rebuts and the Development of Stiffness Indexes |
| 112 | 5.5 Aerodynamic Phenomena and Suspension Bridges |
| 118 | 6.0 Retrenchment in America 6.1 War-Related Spans |
| 121 | 6.2 The Rebirth of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
| 126 | 6.3 Other Early Post-Tacoma Efforts |
| 132 | 7.0 The Legacies of Two Giants 7.1 Steinmaris Triumph at Mackinac |
| 140 | 7.2 Steinman’s Closure—the St. Lawrence and Elsewhere |
| 142 | 7.3 Prelude to the Verrazano-Narrows—the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck bridges |
| 145 | 7.4 Ammann’s Final Legacy—the Verrazano-Narrows |
| 154 | 8.0 European Reconstruction and Revolution 8.1 The Continent Rebuilds |
| 162 | 8.2 Great Britain Stirs |
| 168 | 8.3 The Forth Road Bridge |
| 172 | 8.4 Revolution Across the River Severn |
| 182 | 9.0 A Renaissance of Ideas 9.1 Fritz Leonhardt and the Monocable Suspension Bridge |
| 186 | 9.2 Prestressed Concrete Suspension Bridges and Cable Trusses |
| 188 | 9.3 Pipeline Suspension Bridges and other Imaginative Concepts |
| 193 | 9.4 Bridge across the Tagus—Innovation in Convention |
| 202 | 10.0 The Twilight of American Dominance 10.1 Return to the West Coast |
| 207 | 10.2 The Rise of Prefabricated Parallel Wire Cables |
| 213 | 10.3 Canadian Developments |
| 218 | 10.4 American Twilight |
| 224 | 11.0 The Box Girder Comes of Age 11.1 The Lillebælt Bridge, Denmark |
| 229 | 11.2 Spanning the Bosporus at Istanbul, Turkey |
| 235 | 11.3 The Humber Bridge, England |
| 244 | 12.0 The Box Girder—Problems, Politics, and Pseudo-Boxes 12.1 Severn Under Siege |
| 249 | 12.2 Intrigue across the Bosporus |
| 257 | 12.3 Hong Kong’s Box-like truss—the Tsing Ma Bridge |
| 266 | 13.0 The Scandinavian Experience 13.1 A Unique Norwegian Legacy |
| 273 | 13.2 The Storebælt East Bridge, Denmark |
| 285 | 13.3 Höga Kusten Bridge, Sweden |
| 290 | 14.0 Japan’s Remarkable Evolution 14.1 Early Beginnings |
| 293 | 14.2 Crossing the Threshold—the Kanmon and Others |
| 296 | 14.3 Linking Honshu and Shikoku |
| 303 | 14.4 The Seto Ohashi |
| 310 | 14.5 The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge—A Giant Reborn |
| 317 | 14.6 The Kurushima Triumvirate |
| 320 | 14.7 Beyond Honshu and Shikoku |
| 326 | 15.0 China’s Meteoric Rise 15.1 A Second Revolution |
| 334 | 16.0 New Bridges—The Near Future 16.1 Spans on the Cusp |
| 345 | 16.2 The Allure of the Messina Strait |
| 354 | 17.0 Ultralong-Span Suspension Bridges and Aerodynamic Stability |
| 357 | 17.1 Achieving Ultralong-Span Stability |
| 362 | 17.2 A Plethora of Fantastic Schemes |
| 368 | 18.0 The Legacy of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge 18.1 The Evolving Science of Bridge Aerodynamics |
| 374 | 18.2 The Problematic Plate Girder |
| 379 | 18.3 The Legacy of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
| 382 | References |
| 386 | Bibliography |
| 398 | Appendix |
| 400 | Index A |
| 401 | B |
| 402 | C |
| 403 | D |
| 404 | E F |
| 405 | G |
| 406 | H I J K |
| 407 | L M |
| 408 | N O |
| 409 | P Q R |
| 410 | S |
| 413 | T |
| 414 | U V |
| 415 | W X Y |
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