BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WESTERN INFLUENCE IN MODERN JAPAN

Authors
ISOHATA H HANZAWA Y
Citation
H. Isohata et Y. Hanzawa, BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WESTERN INFLUENCE IN MODERN JAPAN, Engineering structures, 19(9), 1997, pp. 788-794
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Civil
Journal title
Engineering structures → ACNP
ISSN journal
01410296
Volume
19
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
788 - 794
Database
ISI
SICI code
0141-0296(1997)19:9<788:BCTATW>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
With the opening of the country brought about by the Meiji Restoration (1868), modern bridge building in Japan commenced with a full assimil ation of Western technology, With a comparison of bridge-related techn ologies between Japan and other nations farming a contextual backgroun d, we examine, in this paper the history of the establishment of bridg e technologies - or, more specifically, bridge erection technologies - in modern (post-1868) Japan. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.