The Brooklyn Bridge, Londons Tower Bridge, San Franciscos Golden Gatebridges can be breathtakingly monumental structures, magnificent works of art, and vital arteries that make life vastly easier. In Bridges, eminent structural engineer David Blockley takes readers on a fascinating guided tour of bridge construction, ranging from the primitive rope bridges (now mainly found in adventure movies), to Roman aqueducts and the timber trestle railway bridges of the American West, to todays modern marvels, such as the AkashiKaiky? Bridge, which has the largest span in the world. Blockley outlines the forces at work on a bridgetension, compression, and shearand the basic structural elements that combat these forcesbeams, arches, trusses, and suspensions (or BATS). As he does so, he explores some of the great bridges around the world, including such lesserknown masterpieces as the Forth Railway Bridge (featured in Alfred Hitchcocks The ThirtyNine Steps), and describes some spectacular failures, such as the recent bridge collapse in Minnesota or the famous failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940.

Binding: Paperback;330 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: AM; Weight: 472 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 17

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