A Beautiful Wind-rain Bridge in China
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Gonglian Dai
Hao Ge Yu Wang Xiangyu Liu Lvjun Long |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Elegance in structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Nara 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 84-85 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815815774016 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The paper made an on-the-spot investigation of a time-honored and well-preserved wind-rain bridge located in Changfeng Village, Xinhua County, Hunan Province which has a history of one hundred and fifty-five years and is still in service. By analyzing and measuring in detail the structural composition, component materials and sizes of the bridge, this paper summarized craftiness and scientific nature of its construction technology, and simplified its structural system from the perspective of bridge composition and analyzed the mechanical rationality of its structural system from the perspective of mechanics; and analyzed the partial and whole gracefulness of the wind-rain bridge from the perspective of bridge aesthetics; and analyzed functional diversity of the bridge from the perspective of humanity, and finally introduced the existing diseases and gave appropriate suggestions to solve these diseases. |
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| Keywords: |
structural system Wind-rain bridge structural composition functional diversity gracefulness
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