Description
Learn about bridge design and discover how structural engineering is a creative discipline and art form.
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In this engineering course you will learn how to analyze bridges from three perspectives:
1. Efficiency = calculations of forces/stresses
2. Economy = evaluation of societal context and cost
3. Elegance = form/appearance based on engineering principles, not decoration
With a focus on some significant bridges built since the industrial revolution, the course illustrates how engineering is a creative discipline and can become an art. We also show the influence of the economic and social context in bridge design and the interplay between forces and form.
This is the first of three courses on the Art of Structural Engineering, each of which are independent of the other. The two other courses will be on tall buildings/towers and vaults.
No certificates, statements of accomplishment, or other credentials will be awarded in connection with this course.
How to solve for the efficiency of structures using the appropriate formulas
How to evaluate a structure within the measures of structural art
How economic, social, and cultural influences the structural design
How to analyze bridge forms: suspension, beams, pre-stressed, arch, cable-stayed, tied-arch
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Learn about bridge design and discover how structural engineering is a creative discipline and art form.