Structures from nature and man made / [videorecording] : produced byJohn Davis. - Coquitlam, B.C. : Classroom Video, 1999. - 1 computer laser optical disc (23 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Areas covered: "Tension-catenary, suspension bridge, tension, structures, tents, webs; compression-column, buckling, guy ropes, arches, tunnels; shear-cutting metal; torsion-failing in torsion; cantilever-tree branches, lights, bridges; bending-re-enforcing, concrete bridges, post tensioning, beams, I beams, bridge construction." Information quoted from Classroom Video website:http://www.classroomvideo.com.au/Search/Default.aspx?searchtext=structures.

"This video provides a range of everyday examples of structures, both from nature & man made which help to clarify, in simple language, the principles underlying the properties of structures."

Grades 9-12.


DVD format.


Buildings.

624 .177 / STR