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David Billington's Influence on U.S. Bridge Design

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Medium: journal article
Language(s): English
Published in: Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, , n. 1, v. 61
Page(s): 94-106
DOI: 10.20898/j.iass.2020.203.036
Abstract:

This paper describes David Billington's efforts to improve American bridge design by bringing his insight concerning structural art to a range of bridge building agencies and their coordinating institutions, beginning with the Departments of Transportation of Maryland and Minnesota. It also presents his role in bringing to two Maryland bridges the Swiss practice of developing bridge designs via design competitions as a means of resolving contentious public controversies. Finally, it presents two particularly important American bridges that benefitted from his ideas.

Structurae cannot make the full text of this publication available at this time. The full text can be accessed through the publisher via the DOI: 10.20898/j.iass.2020.203.036.
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    05/01/2021
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