00856nam1-2200277---450 99000946169040332120220610115102.088-555-2848-300094616920111024d2005----km-y0itay50------baitaITa-------001yyCategorie geografiche e problematiche di organizzazione territorialescritti in onore di Ricciarda SimoncelliBolognaPatronc2005469 p.ill.24 cmSimoncelli,Ricciarda<1934-2006>ITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990009461690403321A-G 0835B.F.L.F. 62020ILFGE002.003. SCADECGEDECGEILFGECategorie geografiche e problematiche di organizzazione territoriale249867UNINA03930nam 2200601Ia 450 991079200280332120210520010106.01-4008-4470-310.1515/9781400844708(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(MiAaPQ)EBC1047787(PPN)265130824(EXLCZ)99256000000010273720120523d2013 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWind wizard[electronic resource] 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.0-691-15153-9 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 Siobhan1552790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792002803321Wind wizard3812885UNINA03265nam 2200649 a 450 991097516890332120200520144314.09786612162039978128216203712821620399789027297600902729760610.1075/la.45(CKB)1000000000556047(SSID)ssj0000281019(PQKBManifestationID)11247288(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281019(PQKBWorkID)10300029(PQKB)10721693(MiAaPQ)EBC622724(DE-B1597)720473(DE-B1597)9789027297600(EXLCZ)99100000000055604720011011d2002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIssues in formal German(ic) typology /edited by Werner Abraham, C. Jan-Wouter Zwart1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjaminsc20021 online resource (xvii, 334 pages)Linguistics today,0166-0829 ;v. 45 =Linguistik aktuellBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781588111029 1588111024 9789027227669 9027227667 Includes bibliographical references and index.Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors' addresses -- Introduction -- German clause structure under discourse functional weight -- On the co-occurrence of expletives and definite subjects in Germanic -- Reconsidering identificational focus -- Decomposing existence -- Polarity items in English and Danish -- The argument-time structure of recipient constructions in German -- Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance -- Die Negationsklammer im Afrikaans -- On the syntax and semantics of verb-complement constructions that involve 'creation' -- Wh-expletives and partial wh-movement -- Phases in the derivation of elliptical coordinate constructions in Germanic -- Index -- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions like thema and rhema into the grammatical description. This is attempted, in terms of Minimalism, thus extending the functional domain.Linguistik aktuell ;Bd. 45.Issues in formal Germanic typologyIssues in formal German typologyGermanic languagesGrammarGermanic languagesGrammar.430/.045Abraham Werner158164Zwart C. Jan-Wouter1799698MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910975168903321Issues in formal German(ic) typology4344679UNINA