Roman Bridges
Roman Bridges
Out of Print
The Romans were the first great builders of bridges in the western world. Professor O'Connor, a civil engineer and expert in bridge construction, has examined a very large number of those bridges that still remain all over the Roman empire. In this book he presents a thorough listing and description of all known bridges, in many cases illustrating the construction of the bridges by his own photographs and sketches. Introductory chapters place the bridges in their geographical and historical contexts, with detailed maps of the empire-wide system of Roman roads and discussion of how these came to be constructed, and an investigation of the technology available to the Romans. Finally, in order to elucidate the principles used by the Romans in designing their bridges Professor O'Connor examines the proportions of the stone arches, and subjects the rules that emerge to modern structural analysis.
- A comprehensive listing and description of all the known bridges of the Roman empire, with a large number of illustrations
- Written from the point of view of a civil engineer and an expert in bridge construction
- Contains original work on the structural analysis of stone arch bridges, written to be comprehensible by the non-specialist
Product details
December 1993Hardback
9780521393263
251 pages
222 × 350 × 29 mm
1.359kg
154 b/w illus. 11 maps 12 tables
Unavailable - out of print November 2001
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Roman roads and their history
- 3. Builders of the roads and bridges
- 4. Roman technology
- 5. Masonry bridges
- 6. Timber bridges
- 7. Roman aqueducts
- 8. Design and construction of Roman arches
- 9. Analysis of Roman arches
- 10. The Roman achievement.
