Eads Bridge

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Contents

Introduction Background Design & Construction Modifications Spandrel Bracing Length of Spans Storm Damage Collisions Pneumatic Piling West Abutment Floating Cofferdam Aesthetics Theory Numerical Results References Contact Form
Appendix
1  Woodward Ch XXVI 2  Piers & Abutments
Other Projects
Introduction Background Design & Construction Modifications Spandrel Bracing Length of Spans Storm Damage Collisions Pneumatic Piling West Abutment Floating Cofferdam Aesthetics Theory Numerical Results References Contact Form
Appendix 1  Woodward Ch XXVI 2  Piers & Abutments
Other Projects

References

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Books

Billington, David P. The Tower and the Bridge, The New Art of Structural Engineering Princton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Eads, James. Report of the Engineer in Chief of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, May 1868. St. Louis: Missouri Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1868.

Eads, James. Second Annual Report as Chief Engineer, St. Louis Bridge Company, 1869. Reprinted in Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads, compiled and edited by Estill McHenry. St. Louis: Slawson & Co. Printers, 1884.

Eads, James. Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company. Report of the Chief Engineer. October 1870. St. Louis: Missouri Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1871.

Eads, James. Report to the President and Directors of the Illinois and St Louis Bridge Company, Oct 1, 1871. St. Louis: Missouri Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1871. Reprinted in Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads, compiled and edited by Estill McHenry. St. Louis: Slawson & Co. Printers, 1884.

Heyman, Jacques. The Science of Structural Engineering. London: Imperial College Press, 1999. Published as e-book, World Scientific Publishing Co, 2022

Jackson, Robert W. Rails across the Mississippi. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Kidder, Frank E. The Architect's and Builder's Pocket-Book. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1913.

Kobus, Ken. City of Steel: How Pittsburgh became the World's Steelmaking Capital During the Carnegie Era. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Krass, Peter. Carnegie. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Labelye, Charles. A Description of Westminster Bridge. London, UK: W. Strahn, 1751.

McCullough, David. The Great Bridge, The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Misa, Thomas j. A Nation of Steel, The Making of Modern America 1865-1925, Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Scott, Quinta, and Miller, Howard S. The Eads Bridge. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1979.

Waddell, John Alexander. Bridge Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1916.

Waddell, John Alexander. The Economics of Bridgework Braunworth & Co, Brooklyn. NY, 1921

Woodward, C.M. A History of the St. Louis Bridge. St Louis: G.I. Jones, 1881.

Other Documents

Albrecht, E.C.. Reconstruction of Upper Deck on Eads Bridge Approach, Engineering News-Record, March 10, 1921, Vol 86, No10

Boller & Hodge, Sectional drawing of the “Municipal Free Bridge”, 1909. Wikimedia Commons.

Boulnoir, W.A. Foundations of Some of the Metropolitan Bridges. The Civil Engineers and Architects Journal, Vol 21-January 1858 London: William Laxton, 1858.

Bridge Convention, St. Louis, 1867. Proceedings and Report of the Board of Civil Engineers. George Knapp & Co, Printers and Binders, 1867.

C.E. Smith & Company, Consulting Engineers. Report of Engineers Committee, St. Louis – East St. Louis Railroad Terminals. St. Louis: CE Smith & Company, 1922.

D'Esposito, Joshua, Jr. Welded Highway Deck Cuts Dead Load on Eads Bridge, Engineering News-Record, January 8, 1948, Vol 140, Iss 2

Eads, James. Upright Arched Bridges Paper read before American Society of Civil Engineers June 10, 1874. Reprinted in Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads, compiled and edited by Estill McHenry. St. Louis: Slawson & Co. Printers, 1884.

Eads, James. Discussion on Upright Arched Bridges Transactions of American Society of Civil Engineers January 1875. Reprinted in Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads, compiled and edited by Estill McHenry. St. Louis: Slawson & Co. Printers, 1884.

Eads Bridge Drawing Collection (WUA00365). Julian Edison Department of Special Collections, Washington University in St. Louis.

Engineering, an Illustrated Weekly Journal. Design Council, London: Office for Advertisements and Publication, 1866-. Hathi Trust Digital Library

Gayler, Carl. Bridge Designing in Journal of the Association of Engineering Studies, Vol XLII, Jan to Jun, 1909

Historic American Engineering Record. (HAER) MO-12. The Eads Bridge Spanning the Mississippi River Washington DC, National Park Service.

Morison, George S., Set of Drawings, The Great River Bridges,Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), National Park Service, NEB,66-NEBCI,5

Huerta, Santiago. Mechanics of Masonry Vaults: The Equilibrium Approach in Historical Constructions edited by P.B. Lourenço & P Roca. London: CRC Press, 2001.

Kouwenhoven, John A . The Designing of the Eads Bridge Society for the History of Technology, 1982.

Pfeifer, Charles. Calculations of Strains in Arch Bridges New York: Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (Journal) volume 14, June 1876.

Pfeiffer, David A. Bridging the Mississippi, The Railroads and Steamboats Clash at the Rock Island Bridge. National Archives, Prologue Magazine, Summer 2004, Vol. 36, No. 2.

St Louis Republican (St. Louis, Mo.), 1873-1876 (Newspaper), The State Historical Society of Missouri, Digital Collections.

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA). Report of the Chief Engineer on Improvements made in 1902-3-4. St. Louis: Buxton & Skinner Printing, May 23, 1905.

Waddell, John Alexander. The Economics of Steel Arch Bridges, Transactions of the ASCE, 1919, Vol 83, Issue 1


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