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Long Spans and Hard Lessons: Sydney Harbour, Golden Gate and Tacoma Narrows
Two celebrated bridges and one destroyed one. The collapse taught the profession more than either success, and the mechanism is still widely taught wrongly.
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Modern Civil Works: Base Isolation, the Channel Tunnel, Cable-Stayed Spans and Supertall Towers
Four milestones showing what changed in civil engineering once dynamic behaviour could be analysed properly and construction method became the primary design driver.
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Spanning the Gap: The Iron Bridge, the Truss and the Suspension Chain
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
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