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    Civil Engineering: Part 1 Civil Engineering Practice DR Andrew Mcnamara

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    Civil engineers build infrastructure such as roads, bridges, dams, water and sewage systems, buildings, ports, and railways. The document provides a brief history of civil engineering, noting developments from ancient civilizations like Egypt and Rome, through the industrial revolution where materials like iron, steel, concrete, and reinforced concrete were introduced. It also includes a timeline showing important developments in roads, canals/rivers, railways, ports/harbors, water/health, and bridges throughout history. Civil engineering has progressed from early techniques using manual labor and basic materials to modern computer-aided design and advanced materials like pre-stressed concrete and composites.

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    Civil Engineering: Part 1 Civil Engineering Practice Dr Andrew McNamara

    1/1 Introduction and General History

    What do Civil Engineers do?

    Who buys a bridge?

    How do you buy a bridge?

    What do civil engineers build?

    Transport and communications

    Roads, railways, airfields, canals Bridges, tunnels Ports and harbours

    Water supply and drainage.

    Dams: storage, power Provide clean water Get rid of dirty water

    Buildings

    Homes Offices Factories

    Civil Engineering - Historical Development


    Ancient civilisations Egypt Greece China Roads Buildings Clean water Stone Concrete

    BC AD 250

    Rome

    Dark ages in Europe 1000 Church and army 1750 Stone and timber Clean water 1840 Railways Concrete Cast iron Cathedrals Castles

    1825

    Canals

    1900

    1950

    Roads Airports

    Reinforced concrete

    Steel Large dams Tall buildings Long bridges

    Date

    Roads

    Canals and Rivers

    Railways

    Ports and Harbours

    Water and Health

    Bridges

    Materials Brick and masonry

    Theories

    Construction Methods Mass labour Cranes Contracts

    Roman roads Roman sanitation

    Roman arch

    BC/AD

    Saxon roads

    Roman ports

    1000

    Locks Tramways in mines Eddystone lighthouse Iron water pipes English canal system McAdam

    London bridge

    Leonardo da Vinci Iron Galileo

    Craftsmen

    1500

    Highways act

    New River

    Horsepower

    1650

    Turnpikes

    Hookes Law Arch and strut theory Coulomb

    1700

    Gen Wade

    Smelted iron

    Puddle clay

    1750

    Iron rails English railway system

    Water closets

    Ironbridge Suspension bridge Saltash and Forth bridges

    1800

    London docks

    Filter beds

    Portland cement Steel. RC Welding Aluminium

    Elastic theory

    Steam power

    1850

    Ashphalt

    Suez canal

    Trans continent lines Electrification Port of London Hydro-electric power Arch dams

    Beam theory

    Hydraulic power Petrol engine Tracked vehicles

    1900

    Cars European motorways British motorways (Airports)

    Panama canal

    1920

    Sydney harbour bridge

    Pre-stressed concrete Plastics

    Elasto-plasticity Soil mech. Computers

    Vibrated concrete Pre-fabrication Very tall buildings

    1940

    St Lawrence seaway High-speed rail Off-shore Box girders

    1980

    A Brief History of Civil Engineering.

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    What do civil engineers build?

    Transport and communications

    Roads, railways, airfields, canals Bridges, tunnels Ports and harbours

    Water supply and drainage.

    Dams: storage, power Provide clean water Get rid of dirty water

    Buildings

    Homes Offices Factories

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