Wind Wizard (notice n° 75718)
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| control field | FRCYB88935513 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250108000227.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250108s2012 fr | o|||||0|0|||eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691151533 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | FRCYB88935513 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | FR-PaCSA |
| Language of cataloging | en |
| Transcribing agency | |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roberts, Siobhan |
| 245 01 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Wind Wizard |
| Remainder of title | Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | ['Roberts, Siobhan'] |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Princeton University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | p. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamdedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type code | c |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | How the father of wind engineering helped make the world's most amazing buildings and bridges possibleWith 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. The boundary layer wind tunnel mimics these windy marbled striations in order to test models of buildings and bridges that inevitably face the wind when built. Over the years, Davenport's revolutionary lab investigated and improved the wind-worthiness of the world's greatest structures, including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Tower, Shanghai's World Financial Center, the CN Tower, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Sunshine Skyway, and the proposed crossing for the Strait of Messina, linking Sicily with mainland Italy.Chronicling Davenport's innovations by analyzing select projects, this popular-science book gives an illuminating behind-the-scenes view into the practice of wind engineering, and insight into Davenport's steadfast belief that there is neither a structure too tall nor too long, as long as it is supported by sound wind science.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
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| 700 0# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roberts, Siobhan |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Access method | Cyberlibris |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88935513">https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88935513</a> |
| Electronic format type | text/html |
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