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...
The civil wars which continuously infested Japan during the later Middle Ages checked the growth of the industry for a while, but the shortAzuchi-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 the ...