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portada SKYSCRAPERS BEFORE COMPUTERS: How Engineers Learned to Build Into the Sky (HOW THEY BUILT IT BEFORE COMPUTERS) (en Inglés)
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Inglés
N° páginas
216
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
ISBN13
9798172604423

SKYSCRAPERS BEFORE COMPUTERS: How Engineers Learned to Build Into the Sky (HOW THEY BUILT IT BEFORE COMPUTERS) (en Inglés)

Madzharov, Veselin (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

SKYSCRAPERS BEFORE COMPUTERS: How Engineers Learned to Build Into the Sky (HOW THEY BUILT IT BEFORE COMPUTERS) (en Inglés) - Madzharov, Veselin

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Before structural-analysis software, digital models and CAD, engineers were already learning how to build into the sky. The first skyscrapers did not emerge from computer screens. They were calculated on paper, drawn by hand and assembled from thousands of pieces of iron, steel, brick and stone. Their designers had to understand loads, wind, foundations, fire, elevators and structural frames with tools that now seem remarkably simple. Skyscrapers Before Computers explores the engineering revolution that transformed the nineteenth-century city and made the modern skyline possible. The story begins when traditional masonry construction was reaching its practical limits. Taller walls became heavier and consumed valuable floor space. New iron and steel framing offered another answer: instead of asking the walls to carry the building, engineers could create an internal skeleton capable of transferring enormous loads down to the foundations. But solving one problem created many others. How could a tall steel frame resist wind? How could columns and beams be joined reliably with thousands of rivets? How could foundations support unprecedented loads beneath crowded city streets? How could elevators make the upper floors commercially useful? And how could buildings filled with iron and steel survive fire? Through the development of structural frames, caissons, riveted connections, fireproofing, elevators and increasingly sophisticated methods of calculation, engineers gradually learned to control forces on a scale architecture had never experienced before. The book also follows the human side of this transformation: surveyors, draughtsmen, riveters, ironworkers, contractors and engineers coordinating enormous construction projects without digital schedules, laser measurement or computer simulation. Part history and part engineering explanation, Skyscrapers Before Computers reveals how tall buildings became possible long before modern software existed. The skyscraper was not created by computers. It was created by mathematics, steel, experiment, drawings—and engineers willing to build higher than anyone had built before.

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