2Bridge Piers Subjected to Impact Loads Columns are mainly axial load-carrying structural members that are commonly used in large-scale civil structures and infrastructures such as high-rise buildings, highway bridges, subways, etc. Impact loads arising from the collision of vessels or vehicles with...
Elman, Benjamin A.,Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000, pp. 7–28. Elman, Benjamin A., ‘Preface’, inA Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China, Berkeley, Universit...
The civil wars which continuously infested Japan during the later Middle Ages checked the growth of the industry for a while, but the short Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574–1600) that followed saw at least the work of one of the greatest of Japanese artists in lacquer, Honami Kōetsu. He was ...