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Toward Structural Mechanics Through Wooden Bridges in France (1716-1841)

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00287-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-00286-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 14, 2013

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Chapter 1Tradition and Innovation: The Case of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Wooden Bridges

Tardini, Chiara

Pages: 1 –31

[A synopsis of the wooden bridges carried out in the second part of the eighteenth century would be hard to construct, as it would necessarily result much fragmented and incomplete. In that period, a sign of the need for renewing the criteria and rules of design may be perceived in the Traité des...
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Chapter 2Theory and Tests on Wood Elements in the Nineteenth Century in Architecture and Engineering French Treatises

Tardini, Chiara

Pages: 33 –60

[The first decades of the nineteenth century are characterized by the publication of numerous French engineering and architecture treatises. These treatises are important for the formalization of the solution of structural mechanics problems: in particular the tests of resistance in bending. It...
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Chapter 3The Application of Structural Mechanics to Wooden Bridge Design: First Attempts

Tardini, Chiara

Pages: 61 –84

[One of the distinctive elements of the École des Ponts et Chaussées is that it has always created an open-minded attitude to new and interesting activities outside France. In the early 19th century, great interest was directed towards new wooden bridges structural typologies that flourished in...

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