04033nam 2200649Ia 450 991096635310332120200520144314.09781400844708140084470310.1515/9781400844708(CKB)2560000000102737(EBL)1047787(OCoLC)848902284(MdBmJHUP)muse37095(DE-B1597)448025(OCoLC)979578977(DE-B1597)9781400844708(Au-PeEL)EBL1047787(CaPaEBR)ebr10720658(CaONFJC)MIL497792(OCoLC)851185171(PPN)265130824(FR-PaCSA)88935513(MiAaPQ)EBC1047787(FRCYB88935513)88935513(EXLCZ)99256000000010273720120523d2013 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWind wizard Alan G. Davenport and the art of wind engineering /Siobhan RobertsCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Press20131 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780691151533 0691151539 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --I. Sowing Wind Science --II. Tall and Taller Towers --III. Long and Longer Bridges --IV. Project Storm Shelter --Acknowledgments --Notes --Interview Sources --Glossary --Bibliography --IndexWith Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter unduly, sway with abandon, and even collapse. In 1964, Davenport received a confidential telephone call from two engineers requesting tests on a pair of towers that promised to be the tallest in the world. His resulting wind studies on New York's World Trade Center advanced the art and science of wind engineering with one pioneering innovation after another. Establishing the first dedicated "boundary layer" wind tunnel laboratory for civil engineering structures, Davenport enabled the study of the atmospheric region from the earth's surface to three thousand feet, where the air churns with turbulent eddies, the average wind speed increasing with height. The boundary layer wind tunnel mimics these windy marbled striations in order to test models of buildings and bridges that inevitably face the wind when built. Over the years, Davenport's revolutionary lab investigated and improved the wind-worthiness of the world's greatest structures, including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Tower, Shanghai's World Financial Center, the CN Tower, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, and the proposed crossing for the Strait of Messina, linking Sicily with mainland Italy. Chronicling Davenport's innovations by analyzing select projects, this popular-science book gives an illuminating behind-the-scenes view into the practice of wind engineering, and insight into Davenport's steadfast belief that there is neither a structure too tall nor too long, as long as it is supported by sound wind science. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.Wind-pressureBuildingsAerodynamicsBridgesAerodynamicsWind-pressure.BuildingsAerodynamics.BridgesAerodynamics.624.1/75Roberts Siobhan1798264MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966353103321Wind wizard4340923UNINA02227nam 22004573 450 991015643730332120250715080402.01-5071-5572-7(CKB)3710000000986265(BIP)056959518(VLeBooks)9781507155721(MiAaPQ)EBC32179591(Au-PeEL)EBL32179591(OCoLC)1132374262(Exl-AI)993710000000986265(EXLCZ)99371000000098626520250715d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShadows from the End of the World | Bindaline 11st ed.TBD :Insepia,2017.©2017.1 online resource (115 p.) IT IS TIME TO ACT.THE BELLS ARE RINGING.IF YOU CAN HEAR THEM, YOU COULD BE A BINDALINE.This novel is the first of the BINDALINE Trilogy, belonging to the ENEALOGIA series, a dimensionalepic set on the frontiers between time and the known urban landscape.---------------------------------------------Heed the voices of the wind when walking for the future would pronounce itself as an echo. Destiny is always a few paces ahead and will not pause to ensure that it has been understood.(from the Alde ge or Book of Revelation)-------------------------------------------------They had to remember their past identities, but this was only the first step. New generations are being born, the unawoken are reawakening. With the sound of the Bells, the Bindaline also appear at the end of the cycle, however, many are unaware that they are in fact Urban Messengers. The advancing shadows set the stage to complete their work. It has taken millennia...Epic literatureGenerated by AIFate and fatalismGenerated by AIEpic literatureFate and fatalismPytrell Ariel1434444Bringolf Nicholas1747625MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910156437303321Shadows from the End of the World Bindaline 14179778UNINA