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Contents
rologue The Salgina Crossing | 3 |
Family and School 18721894 | 5 |
Reinforced Concrete in the 1890s | 9 |
The Turn from Masonry 18941901 | 15 |
The New Bridge Form 19011904 | 31 |
From Bridges to Buildings 19041909 | 43 |
The Business of Building 19091919 | 49 |
From Builder to Designer 19191927 | 63 |
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Aarburg Aare River abutments aesthetic analysis appearance arch bridge arch slab beam behavior bending Bern Béton armé Billwil Blumer-Maillart bridge by Maillart bridge design Bridge Form Brückenbau builder building built calculations Carl Culmann carry Chiasso Christian Menn Civil Engineering columns compression concrete arch construction cost courtesy of M.-C cracks cross walls crown curved dead load deck-stiffened arch developed diagram El-Arousy Felsegg flat-slab Flienglibach forced concrete Froté and Westermann Gallen girder Graubünden Hennebique hinges Inn River kg/cm² lbid live load load test Lorraine Bridge Maillart's design materials meters method Mörsch Pampigny parapet patent photograph courtesy Princeton quarterspan reinforced concrete Rhätische Bahn Ritter River bridge roadway Robert Maillart Roš Salgina Salginatobel bridge scaffold Schwandbach Schwandbach bridge Schweizerische shows span Stauffacher Bridge steel stiffness Swiss Switzerland Tavanasa bridge three-hinged arch Töss truss Valtschielbach vertical Vierendeel visual Wäggital Zuoz bridge Zurich