The authors, both premier structural engineers, discuss architectural and structural catastrophes, from the Parthenon and Rome's Coliseum to the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City and the Malpasset Dam in France. This is a feast of architectural flops and flummoxes, natural disasters and human error.

Presents the secrets of materials science. This book explains the importance and properties of different structures.

What really makes the things around us tick? Did you know that the principle behind the zip fastener also governed the building of the pyramids? Or that the dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? The inner workings of hundreds of machines and devices are explained in this fun, colourful and unique look at.

The alliance between architecture and structure and the people who forged it is the topic of this book. The author provides an introduction to building methods from ancient times to the present day.

Henry Petroski looks at the pencil and cites it as a prime example of elegant design and engineering with much to say about the world of modern technology. He includes facts such as that a single pencil could draw a line 70 miles long, and that Hemingway and Steinbeck wrote novels in pencil.

What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the shape of the paper clip or the tab of a beverage can? This work explores what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems.

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the hugely successful first edition.

Features modern engineering applications and the uses of technology. The author introduces engineers and computer scientists to advanced math topics as they relate to practical problems. It is arranged into several parts such as: ODE; Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus; Fourier Analysis and Partial Differential Equations; and Complex Analysis.

Offers various problems that are known for their accuracy, realism, applications, and variety for motivating students to learn and develop their problem solving skills. This book provides coverage of drawing free body diagrams which is a useful skill needed to solve mechanics problems.

Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.

A comprehensive introduction to the basics of engineering thermodynamics. This book includes numerous illustrations and graphs to help students learn engineering concepts.

A textbook for third and fourth year students in all electrical and computer engineering departments taking electronic circuit courses. . Every chapter features a design problem that tests the problem-solving skills employed by real engineering.

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, retains a rare power to astonish. This book tells the story of how the cupola was raised, from its conception to its consecration.

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. This book shows us that making something better - by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure - is what invention and design are all about. It explores the nature of invention.

This text offers a clear and comprehensive overview of rocket propulsion technology, covering thermodynamics, heat transfer, aerodynamics, flight performance and propellant chemistry, with a particular focus on the applications for industry.

Provides students, an understanding of materials science and engineering through clear and concise writing and familiar terminology that is within student comprehension.

Leads readers through the design of a wood structure following the same sequence used in the actual design/construction process.

Provides mechanical and manufacturing engineers, designers, draftsmen, toolmakers, and machinists with a broad range material, from the very basic to the more advanced. This title also provides industry fundamentals and standards with material reflecting technological advances.