Assignments – Homework – Projects

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Anything from this web-site, except the few pictures imported with permission, may be used for reading or downloading for private use or for private academic use.  If you want to use any of the material commercially, or for presentation to a class, please ask, using the address [email protected].  But it has not been compiled as a replacement for text-books: the order of presentation is designed to create variety as much as logic.  Many of the topics are hyper-linked at various points, but many other possible links are left to the reader’s imagination.  More important is the vast range of information which is a accessible through the pages of links.

The order of topics in this web-site is not always logical, though some attempt has been made to avoid presenting topics that depend on later material in a page.  In some cases material has been repeated in several pages in order to make individual pages more self-contained.

Questions are very welcome, but potentially long answers may be given in the form of a link to a page of this web-site or to another site, or to a book.

What should your project contain?  This depends on whether the subject is given, or has to be chosen by you.

Here are some possible ideas based on bridges and other structures –

Human aspects

Project based on a particular engineer

Project bases on a particular bridge

What did the engineer do in creating the structure?

What drives creative people?

     Admiration of a particular person when young

     Exposure to a particular object as a child

     Ambition to create something outstanding

     Ambition to be famous for something

Effect of structures on people

Effect of structures on surroundings

Effect of structures on transport and travel

Some people became outstanding in a field because at an early age they discovered that it was their vocation.  Others wanted to be famous, and sometimes entered a field by chance, or because some other one was closed to them for some reason.

Engineering aspects

Project based on a particular engineer

Project based on a particular structure

Project based on a particular type of structure

Project based on a particular area

Project based on aesthetic principles

A project doesn’t have to be based on famous things – you can often find many objects of interest in your own area.  Even the details of a single structure can be used to illustrate numerous different points.  Many points in this web-site are illustrated by pictures of small objects which are not directly related to the subject in question.  Others are illustrated by models and diagrams.

The pages of links in this web-site point the way to information on most of the ideas listed above.

If your project requires you to cite sources with authorship, you can use the following –

Author       Mr  Derek  Locke         Web-site      Brantacan

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