Structures: Why They Stand and Why They Fall Apart
Structures: Why They Stand and Why They Fall Apart
39.99 €
In this book, James Gordon brilliantly manages to explain technically complex things in a simple way: what structures (natural and artificial) are, how they are constructed, how they work, what holds them together and what tears them apart, what physical laws are responsible, and who discovered these laws.
Informally and wittily, but without oversimplifying, the author explains how the powerful forces that keep buildings from collapsing, cable-stayed bridges from collapsing under the weight of eight-lane traffic, and dams from holding back thousands of tons of water operate. And conversely: why do phenomena such as tension, torsion, shear, and compression still cause disasters, cause airplane wings to fall off, and break people's legs?
Thanks to its relaxed delivery, the encyclopedic volume of facts, causes, and effects feels like a captivating conversation that flies by, leaving the reader with the pleasant feeling of having already known (or at least guessed) all this, and now, at last, this knowledge has been skillfully laid out before them.
This book is addressed to anyone interested in the physical foundations and structure of the surrounding material world.
Informally and wittily, but without oversimplifying, the author explains how the powerful forces that keep buildings from collapsing, cable-stayed bridges from collapsing under the weight of eight-lane traffic, and dams from holding back thousands of tons of water operate. And conversely: why do phenomena such as tension, torsion, shear, and compression still cause disasters, cause airplane wings to fall off, and break people's legs?
Thanks to its relaxed delivery, the encyclopedic volume of facts, causes, and effects feels like a captivating conversation that flies by, leaving the reader with the pleasant feeling of having already known (or at least guessed) all this, and now, at last, this knowledge has been skillfully laid out before them.
This book is addressed to anyone interested in the physical foundations and structure of the surrounding material world.
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