Historic Bridges: Evaluation, Preservation, and ManagementHojjat Adeli CRC Press, 2016 M04 19 - 304 pages Explore Historic Bridge Design through the Perspective of Modern Engineering Historic Bridges:Evaluation, Preservation, and Management provides both an admiring and a technical account of bridge engineering through an exploration of several remarkable examples. From ancient China to modern-day Minnesota, the book di |
Contents
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Chapter 3 The Dragon Bridge of Li Chun in Ancient China | 35 |
Connecting Design and Historic Preservation Goals on Milwaukee Countys Historic Parkway Bridges | 61 |
The Historian and the Engineer Collaborate | 77 |
Chapter 6 Structural Deck Evaluation of the John A Roebling Suspension Bridge | 101 |
Chapter 7 Extant Lenticular Iron Truss Bridges from the Berlin Iron Bridge Company | 125 |
Overview of Research | 145 |
Chapter 10 The Preservation of Historic Bridges | 185 |
Adaptive Use Bridge Project University of MasachusettsAmherst | 205 |
Chapter 12 Preservation of Stone Masonry Aqueducts on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal | 219 |
Chapter 13 Rehabilitation of Two Historic Timber Covered Bridges in Massachusetts | 243 |
Chapter 14 The Historic Rehabilitation of the Market Street Bridge in Chattanooga Tennessee | 261 |
Chapter 15 Reinventing Squire Whipples Bridge | 279 |
Back cover | 289 |
Chapter 9 Mechanical Properties of Wrought Iron from Penns Creek Bridge 1886 | 167 |
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Page 62 - National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 Stat. 915, 16 USC 470, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expand and maintain a National Register of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, and culture.
Page 70 - Rehabilitation is defined as the act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical or cultural values.
Page 78 - Federal department or independent agency having authority to license any undertaking shall, prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds on the undertaking or prior to the issuance of any license, as the case may be, take into account the effect of the undertaking on any district, site, building, structure, or object that is included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register.
Page 71 - If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures shall be undertaken. 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. 10. New additions and adjacent or...
Page 15 - The headway at time of high water was about 8 feet under these spans. At the time of our survey, in 1866, this bridge was in very bad condition, the piers, built with a core of concrete, were cracked in several places, and to support the spans temporarily various devices had been resorted to. The trusses, which were of that pattern known as McCallum's, were decayed in many parts, and a large number of the diagonals were split and broomed where they abutted against the angle blocks. In...
Page 71 - ... property shall be preserved. 6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in design, color, texture and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical or pictorial evidence. 7. Chemical or physical treatments, such as sandblasting, that cause damage to historic...
Page 71 - The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure, or site and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when possible. 3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier appearance shall be discouraged.
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Page 126 - First, most schools of formalism, where they have taken the name deliberately, have occurred in the latter part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The concept of "formalism...