Overview

This book is a collection of recent articles by Dr Man-Chung Tang on the design of bridges. Based on his years of experience in bridge-building, the book is divided into three parts: Ideas, Conception and Others. Part 1: Ideas, covers the architecture in bridge design - from the artistic expression to human emotion of an engineer to integrate the arts on the basis of engineering. Part 2: Conception, looks into the implementation of bridge design from the perspectives of aesthetics, safety, economy, and service life cycle. Finally, in Part 3: Others, the author presents his design thinking about bridge development in China and the rest of the world. The book explains the theories in bridge design in simple language, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners specialising in bridge engineering, civil engineering and other related fields.

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Author:   Man-chung Tang (T Y Lin International, China) ,  Jingyi Guo (Chongqing Jiaotong Univ, China)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789811238741

ISBN 10:   981123874
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   29 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

IDEAS: Competent, Accomplished, Aesthetic, Elegant — the Realms of the Art of Bridge Building; The Art of Bridge-Building; Talk About Innovation; Innovation and Safety; A Brief Talk on the Innovation of Urban Bridge; Essays on Innovation; Safe, Functionality, Economy and Aesthetics; Bridge Aesthetics and Economic Coordination — A Discussion on the Rationality of the Structure; Price of Beauty; The Middle Way of Bridge Beauty; ""Value versus Cost""; Observation of Bridge Durability; Health Life of Bridge; The Possible and the Impossible: Brief Talk about Bridge Safety and Life; Accountants, Lawyers and Engineers; CONCEPTION: On the Development of Bridges in China in the Past 30 Years; The Idea of the Taiwan Strait Bridge; A World Record Race for Bridge Span; Discussion on Single-Cable Plane Cable-Stayed Bridge under Eccentric Load; Cable-Supported Girder Bridge; A New Idea of Orthotropic Steel Deck; The Story of the East Section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge; The Design Concept of Several New Bridges in Chongqing; Design Concept of Three New Bbridges in Chongqing; Design Concept of Twin River Bridges, Chongqing; Sanhao Bridge, Shenyang, China; The Art of Arches; OTHERS: Man-Chung Tang and His Bridges; Talk About Orthotropic Steel Deck; Relaxed Face of Rigid Professors; Epilogue;

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Man-Chung TANG is Chairman of the Board of T Y Lin International (China), a subsidiary of T Y Lin International, USA. He is a professional engineer in the United States, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Corres. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK, and an Honorary Professor of Tsinghua, Tongji, Southeast, and 10 other universities in China. He was an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York from 1986 to 1994. Dr Tang received his Doctor of Engineering degree in 1965 from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Later he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the University of Kassel, Germany, an Honorary Doctor of Literature degree by Chu Hai College, Hong Kong and an Honorary Master's degree in Architecture by the University of Venice, Italy. In 1999, Engineering News-Record recognized Dr Tang as one of the world's top 125 people in the engineering/construction industry in the past 125 years. He was awarded the IABSE's International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering and presented with the ASCE's OPAL Award for Design in 2010. In 2013, he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Institution of Structural Engineers, UK, and in 2016, the Kuohao Li Medal by the Kuohao Li Foundation, China for his innovation in bridge concepts. He has published four books and over 150 technical papers. His love is bridges. He has led the design and/or construction of over 100 major bridges — 10 of them of world record spans at the time of completion — located in all five inhabited continents of the world. It can accurately be said that ""the sun never sets on a Man-Chung Tang bridge!"" About the Translator Jingyi GUO (translator) is an Associate Professor of English in Chongqing Jiaotong University, China. She teaches English for specific purposes (ESP) for Civil Engineering and FIDIC contracts in English and is in charge of the training of civil engineers and translators working on site at overseas projects, in the English language. Her major research interests are English translation of technical documents, contracts, tenders, and communication on jobsites. Her translation experience includes being the full-time on-site translator for the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge Project, Ertan Hydro-electric Power Station Lot II, Penang Second Marine Crossing (technical design document and specification translation) and Shenzhen–Zhongshan Fixed Link (design proposal competition). She translated and published Oresund Technical Publication — The Tunnel from English into Chinese and complied college course books entitled English for Tunnel Engineering and A Practical English Coursebook for Postgraduates.

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