Bibliography
Zalewski Waclaw, , and Edward Allen. Shaping Structures Statics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Son, 1998.
Teacher and student annotated bibliography
Since I teach honors level Physics to high school students the resources for students and teachers would be the same. Many of the references with pictures of bridges will be available to the students to use for ideas on their bridge designs.
Brown,David J. Bridges: Three Thousand Years of Defying Nature. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2005.
An overview of the origins of bridges, The influence of materials in the engineering of bridges. Many historic and new forms of bridges
Cortright,Robers S. Bridging:Discovering the Beauty of Bridges. Tigard, Oregon: Bridge Ink, 1998.
Many illustration of bridges with their environmental settings. Shows the many different types of bridges.
Cowan,Henry J. The World's Greatest Buildings: Masterpieces of Architucture and Engineering. San Francisco, CA: Fog City Press, 2000.
This book has a focused discussion of building types and synthesis of form and function.
Dupre,Judith. Bridges. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal , 1997.
Describes the many basic principles of bridge making with many illustrations.
Eberhart,Mark E. Why Things Break. New York: Harmony Books, 2003.
Understanding the world by the way it comes apart, written by a chemist about the role of material in construction of structures.
Engel,Heino. Structure Systems. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Verlags-Snstalt GmbH, 1997.
Discussion and illustrated diagrams and models of the may structural system types and subsets of criteria. Will help provide clarity for the design and development of form, support and elements in creating structural systems.
Gordon,J.E. Structures: or Why Things Don't Fall Down. London: Plenum Press, 1978.
This book explains structures with simple facts of reality combined with significant observations that together make the understanding of living structures memorable.
Gottemoeller,Frederick. Bridgescape:the Art of Designing Bridges. NewYork: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
The design detail for a bridge as view from an engineer's perspective. It illustrates an attempt to understand and explain the qualitites of bridge design including many practical environmental factors.
Graf,Berhard. Bridges that Changed the World. Munich: Prestel, 2002.
Illustrations of bridges thest cover a broad array of bridge types with a discussion about the bridge's unique role within the community.
Hewitt, P. (1993). Conceptual physics. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
Excellent conceptual physics text book
Leonhardt,Fritz. Bridges: Aesthetics and Design. Stuttgart, Germany: Verlags-Anstalt, 1982.
This author explores many design issues including issues about the physical and mechanical properties of materials.
Mainstone,Rowland J. Developments In Structural Form. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983.
The book describes the study of the relationships between structural forms, actions, materials and constructions.
Orton,Andrew. The Way We Build Now: Form, Scale and Technique. Berkshire, England: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988.
Schodek,Daniel L. Structures. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
This book covers basic statics of structural systems including bridges. Includes good three dimensional pictures of structures
Tzonis,Alexander. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works. New York: Rizzzoli, 2007.
Designs by Calatrave especially covers the conceptual images and dynamic studies leading to project design. Many beautiful bridges and buildings by Calatrava.
Tzonis,Alexander. Santiago Calatrava: The Poetics of Movement. New York: Universe Publishing, 1999.
This book contains many beautiful pictures of Calatrava's designs. It captures the extraordinary achievement of how the dynamics of art, movement, engineering and building are interconnected and realized.
Whitney,Charles S. Bridges of the World: Their Design and Construction. New York: Dover, 2003.
Describes the influence of materials on bridge design and form.
Zalewski, Waclaw, and Edward Allen. Shaping Structures: Statics. New York, NY: John Wiley & Son, 1998.
A great book on statics and the graphical analysis of structures. It covers the basic principles of forces, their direction, lines of action and resolutions. The book includes an interactive disk to solve problems.
Zitzewitz, P., Elliott, T, & Haase, D. (2005). Physics principles and problems. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Physics textbook assign to my class
Video sources
Ray and Charles Eames, The Power of Ten
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