作者介紹
Mario G. Salvadori (March 19, 1907 – June 25, 1997)[1] was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.Salvadori was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. His father, an engineer who worked for the telephone company, became the chief engineer of the city of Genoa when the phone company merged with their French counterpart. Salvadori's father later became the head of the gas and electric company in Spain. As a consequence, Salvadori spent many years of his youth in Madrid and only returned to Italy in 1923. Two years later, when he was 18, he started what the first student jazz band in Italy; one of his youthful dreams was to become a concert conductor, although his parents did not encourage this.
He earned doctoral degrees in both civil engineering and mathematics from the University of Rome in 1930 and 1933 respectively. The next two years he did graduate research in photoelasticity at University College London. Subsequently, he returned to Rome, where he served as an instructor at the University of Rome. Salvadori was an outspoken critic of the regime of Benito Mussolini,[1] and he subsequently left Italy in 1938 or 1939[1] for New York at the recommendation of his teacher and friend, Enrico Fermi.
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（以上摘自維基百科，未為盡舉。但我們已經知道，這位結構界的大牛，生活從來鮮明：父親是義大利電氣公司派駐在西班牙的分部老大；他少年時代在西班牙讀過，大學時代成立了義大利的第一個爵士樂隊；當時的理想是做個指揮家…… 後來去美留學，是出自他的良師益友的建議：他就是費米。）
作品目錄
1. 從洞穴到摩天大樓（概述）……………………（1）2. 帳篷的搭設………………………………………（8）
3. 什麼是梁？………………………………………（14）
4. 用什麼材料建造結構？…………………………（17）
5. 室內樓板…………………………………………（27）
6. 用紙模擬製作鋼框架……………………………（31）
7. 看不見的建築部分………………………………（42）
8. 龍捲風、地震和溫度的影響……………………（47）
9. 怎樣與龍捲風、地震作鬥爭……………………（54）
10. 纜繩和鋼索………………………………………（63）
11. 桿件與石塊………………………………………（71）
12. 繩桿結構…………………………………………（84）
13. 形狀與強度………………………………………（97）
14. 圓筒、碟子、蝴蝶、腳踏車輪和雞蛋…………（106）
15. 氣球——再談帳篷………………………………（121）
