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Footage from British Movietone newsreels. Shows man-made disasters featuring plane, train, boat and helicopter crashes, ships sinking and bridges collapsing. Natural disasters covered include floods,...
Reports on a dutch method for the erection of the new steel bridge, the van Brienenoord bridge in Rotterdam. Shows fabrication in a workshop, transport of the complete structure to the construction site...
The new Willems bridge is a cable stayed bridge across the River Meuse in Rotterdam. It is, in fact, a bascule bridge which cannot be opened. Shows all phases in the building from the foundations to the...
Shows how structural engineers select the objectives, material and structural arrangement for a structure, using the Humber bridge as an example. Includes sections on methods of calculation of the size of...
Strong materials are required to make bridges, and wood or stone were replaced by iron as large blast furnaces came along. The superior tensile properties of iron allowed bridge builders to use new designs,...
Shows the various stages of construction in the building of the superstructure of the Humber Bridge. Describes the spinning of the main suspension cables, the raising of the road deck units to completion of...
Shows civil engineering students designing, building and testing bridges made of spaghetti. The materials may be novel but the lessons are the same as for conventional materials and full-size structural...
In October 1970, a span of West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed under construction. Redpath Dorman Long International were called in as the new joint contractors to reassess, re-design and help complete...
An appreciative look at the achievements of this great engineer with particular emphasis on the Great Western Railway. Also shows the Clifton Suspension Bridge, the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, his...
Discusses the efforts of scientists to deal with the often destructive forces of wind through the science of wind engineering. Shows the collapse of a suspension bridge due to ‘resonance effects’....
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