Wind wizard : Alan G. Davenport and the art of wind engineering
Roberts, Siobhan2013
Book
With Wind Wizard , Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter unduly, sway with abandon, and even collapse. In 1964, Davenport received a confidential telephone call from two engineers requesting tests on a pair of towers that promised to be the tallest in the world. His resulting wind studies on New York's World Trade Center advanced the art and science of wind engineering with one pioneering innovation after another. Establishing the first dedicated boundary layer wind tunnel laboratory for civil engineering structures, Davenport enabled the study of the atmospheric region from the earth's surface to three thousand feet, where the air churns with turbulent eddies, the average wind speed increasing with height.
Main title:
Wind wizard : Alan G. Davenport and the art of wind engineering / Siobhan Roberts.
Author:
Imprint:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2013.
Collation:
278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Sowing wind science -- Tall and taller towers -- Long and longer bridges -- Project storm shelter.
ISBN:
9780691151533
Dewey class:
624.175
Language:
English
BRN:
169896
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| Library at the Dock | -Science and Nature | SCIENCE 624.175 ROBE | Available |