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Looking at the Past

by Charles Seim, T.Y. Lin Int, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Structural Design, Analysis and Testing

Abstract:

The story of bridge building is related through a look at the bridges of the past, from earliest bridges of record to the latest cable-stayed successes. Progress in bridge development is viewed as a recombination of the basic elements of building, advanced by individual insight and creativity.

Subject Headings: Infrastructure construction | Suspension bridges | Steel bridges | Arch bridges | Bridge design | Cable stayed bridges | Cables

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