Bridges and Special Structures: Towards an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Antonio José Reis
(GRID International and IST University of Lisbon. Portugal)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1371-1378 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.1366 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Design of bridges and special structures like long span roofs, is not only a structural exercise. Integration and aesthetics are a challenge for structural engineers towards a sustainable and innovative built environment. Structural engineers are facing new architectural demands for geometrical shapes. Bridges have a multifunction social use, being part of human life and should be interpret as such. Author´s design experience worldwide, for more than 40 years, is reflected and illustrated by design cases in this paper. |
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| Keywords: |
aesthetics bridges roofs stadiums environment suspension bridges special structures bow-string
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