Peter Martin

Home and Away

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Home and Away - A Civil Engineering Odyssey draws on the author's long career as an engineer responsible for many projects around the world. In the memoir he highlights some of those projects with descriptions of the design processes and the construction methods used to bring the works to successful completion, keeping technical detail to the minimum needed for the reader's understanding of the projects. Personal reminiscences of his travels complement descriptions of life as an engineer. Developments in analysis of structures during the author's working life have enabled all manner of structures to be designed to display elegance of form in a natural way without unnecessary embellishment. Practising engineers understand the satisfaction to be found in designing such engineering works and seeing them built as they envisaged. It is hoped the author's enthusiasm for his work as expressed in the memoir may inspire others to become the civil engineers of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781398478114
• ISBN-10: 1398478113
• Artikelnr.: 67365631

Autorenporträt

Peter Martin worked as a professional civil engineer for over 50 years starting in the days when calculations were carried out with the aid of slide rules and 7-figure log tables. During his career he designed and supervised construction of many bridges and harbour works in the UK and throughout the Far East, SE Asia, and Africa, living in the East with his family for 12 years. He has three grown-up sons and six grandchildren and now lives in a village near Glasgow where he attempts to keep the garden in some sort of order.