(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
2) Building
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Experiments and other activities introduce building, how materials are used and joined together, and what gives structure its strength.
Publisher
Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"FEMA 85 has been updated to reflect the requirements of the most current codes and standards and to provide a best practices approach in reducing damages from natural hazards. Designs are included for wood-framed foundations, conventional concrete and masonry pier foundations, and ground anchors. A detailed example showing step-by-step procedures on how to design a foundation for a manufactured home is also included"--Preface.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the science of architecture since ancient times, and examines the life cycle of a building, from design to demolition. It looks at the challenges faced by . . . architects, including how to build in areas prone to natural disaster, and how to build sustainably, so that our structures don't end up damaging the planet"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers activities using safe, familiar, and easy-to-obtain objects, including such projects as making a paper bridge span, creating a clay foundation, and building a tower of blocks.
8) Understanding the world's greatest structures: science and innovation from antiquity to modernity
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines various types of structures such as bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers, and how their architecture has evolved. Includes web sites for further research on this topic.
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.
12) Structures
Publisher
Distributed by Insight Media
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Language
English
Description
This video presents a range of structures, both from nature and man made which help clarify, in simple language, the principles underlying the properties of structures. Included are discussions of tension, compression, arches, cantilevering, pre and post-stressing beams, shear, torsion and a section on light structures.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television program that explores the Inca civilization from the perspective of their construction techniques. Archaeological teams use traditional building techniques to test their hypotheses, including the building of a 150-foot suspension bridge using nothing but grass.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"From science to engineering and from theory to practice, it illustrates different breakthroughs, traced back to their origin and placed into prospective. First, the text presents the fundamental laws of mechanics, the theory of elasticity, and the development of the generalized stress-generalized strain concept. Next, it details the era of plasticity. The finite element method comes as an offspring of the generalized stress generalized strain concept....
