About the Book: Rainas Bridges Past and Future
Here is an attempt at integrating the vagaries and phases the "Bridges" have
gone through in the "Past"and what may befall their "Future"-notwithstanding
their "Present" which is all too struggling for the answers between "hope and
despair" !!
……Their "Past" reveals how their "Form" evolved and developed over centuries,
graduating from "BEAM" and "ARCH" forms to "SUSPENSION" and "CABLE STAYED" forms
which display MUSICAL INDEFINITENESS-all helped by the mans continuous endeavour
at evolving improvements in the techniques of "ANALYSIS", "DESIGN", "DETAILING"
and "CONSTRUCTION" further aided by the mighty "Computer Software" with
classical MATHEMATICAL EXACTITUDE !!
Enroute, in the