The Origins of the Modern Long Span Suspension Bridge

现代大跨度悬索桥的起源

• 批准号: 8710423
• 负责人: Emory Kemp
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-07-15 至 1988-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8710423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Origins; Modern; Long; Span; Suspension

In the nineteenth century, science and engineering were becoming significantly interconnected for the first time. The history of the development of modern long span wire suspension bridges affords advances in understanding the way in which analytical and experimental techniques have been exploited in tandem in technological development in Europe and North America. Dr. Kemp, trained as an engineer and hence bringing solid technical knowledge to his subject, proposes that Marc Seguin played a key role in the refinement and spread of wire suspension bridges. Yet Seguin falls in the category of bridge- designers--a nomadic group about whom information, even concerning those most successful, is scarce. In this study, Dr. Kemp examines collections of private papers of Seguin's which he has found in France and which he will mine in order to add an important piece to the historical puzzle. He argues that Seguin's approach was more practical than Navier's rather theoretical approach and helped to set the stage for the golden age of suspension bridges in America.

在世纪，科学和工程学逐渐成为 第一次有了很大的关联。 的历史 现代大跨度悬索桥的发展， 在理解分析和实验 在技术发展中， 在欧洲和北美。 肯普博士是一名工程师， 从而为他的主题带来了扎实的技术知识，提出， 马克塞甘在金属丝的改良和推广中发挥了关键作用 悬索桥 然而塞甘福尔斯桥梁的范畴- 设计师--一个游牧的群体，关于他们的信息， 那些最成功的，是稀缺的。 在这项研究中，肯普博士研究了 他在法国发现的塞甘的私人文件集 他将开采这些矿， 历史谜题 他认为塞甘的方法更实际 而不是纳维的理论方法，并帮助建立了一个阶段， 美国悬索桥的黄金时代