structural analysis (engineering)

Explains the engineering designs that keep buildings, suspension bridges, dams, or skyscrapers from falling down.

Presents an introduction to engineering, and tells the stories of a selection of engineering feats and failures, including the Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and many others.

Step inside the world's most incredible engineering feats with National Geographic.

An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.

Investigates structures and their functions both natural and man-made, including bridges, molds, homes, the human body, and more. Includes twenty experiments for children.

Explains how tents, houses, stadiums, and bridges are built, and how to build models of such structures using materials found around the home.

Presents an introduction to engineering, and tells the stories of a selection of engineering feats and failures, including the Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and many others.