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Shows examples of the variety of use of gabions in coastal structures, including gabion retaining walls, gabion revetments for dune enhancement, gabion groynes for beach control and gabion mats giving...
By following the design and manufacture of a steel-frame building, examines and explains the BSI ‘Specification for the Structural Use of Steelwork in Buildings’, dealing in particular with the concepts...
Concerned with buildings that are ‘wind-sensitive’ because of shape, size, location and relationship to nearby structures. Points out that such buildings are not covered by the BS Code of Practice and,...
A description of the stages (from concept through model to prototype) leading to the production of cheap, stable man-made islands. Shows the prototype construction of an island by hydraulically placing sand...
The ‘Jumbo’ piles beneath Cannon Street in the City of London, between which the Fleet Line tunnels run, go to a depth which represents fifty million years in time. Straight-shafted, under-reamed and...
Shows the importance of water to the people of Peru and how the lack of it is being overcome through the construction of an extensive irrigation scheme, which diverts rivers through tunnels and canals to...
The bridge, opened at the end of October 1973 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic, is the longest single span suspension bridge in Europe. The film covers the project from...
As part of a 10-day surveying field course held in Coniston, engineering students carry out surveying work to solve 3 problems - triangulation, tachymetry, and setting out.
Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1970. Shows the reconstruction of the bridge, with steel arches supporting and eventually replacing...
A combination of factors such as load, temperature, stress concentration and others can lead to a brittle fracture failure. Uses simple animation sequences to explain the effects of stress concentrations and...
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