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Engineering elegant bridges - the process and the outcome

 Engineering elegant bridges - the process and the outcome
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Elegance in structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015, published in , pp. 4-5
DOI: 10.2749/222137815815773666
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The appearance of our bridges and structures really matters. lt is not good enough to build functional bridges that merely carry loads safely without also thinking about their appearance and how pe...
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Author(s):
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Elegance in structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015
Published in:
Page(s): 4-5 Total no. of pages: 11
Page(s): 4-5
Total no. of pages: 11
Year: 2015
DOI: 10.2749/222137815815773666
Abstract:

The appearance of our bridges and structures really matters. lt is not good enough to build functional bridges that merely carry loads safely without also thinking about their appearance and how people will react to them. lt is the appearance that usually dictates whether or not a bridge becomes popular with the public, and the appearance which will differentiate between the bridges that people love and those they hate. But elegant bridge design is about more than just the appearance, and this paper addresses the process of designing bridges elegantly as well as the elegance of the bridge itself.

Keywords:
bridges appearance elegance delight elegant design