State of the Art Engineering
Imhotep is the first Structural Engineer in history to be known by name. He built the Step Pyramid, northwest of the city of Memphis in Egypt, as a burial tomb for Pharaoh Djoser around 2700 BC. For millenniums after, structural engineering consisted of trial and error methods; based on the empirical evidence of what had proved previously to be successful. As a result, structures tended to be repetitive in nature and successive advances were incremental in scale.
Modern structural engineering came about in the late 19th century with the advent of the Industrial Revolution (the production of steel) and the re-invention of structural concrete (which had been widely used by the ancient Romans). Building on advances made by English (Issac Newton), Swiss (Leonard Euler and Johann, Jakob, Johann II, and especially Daniel Bernoulli), and Russian (Stephen Timoshenko) scientists, the field of structural engineering was developed using concepts from mathematics, physics, and material science.
The 1960's brought about computer based applications which greatly increased the speed and accuracy of engineering calculations. The handheld calculator in the 1970's and the desk-top personal computer of the 1980's made extremely complex analysis and design a common occurrence. The advanced computer modeling of the 2000's has made possible previously unimaginable structural designs. The current era is an exciting time for structural engineering and Johnson Leifield Structural Engineers is on the cutting-edge of these current developments:
Modern structural engineering came about in the late 19th century with the advent of the Industrial Revolution (the production of steel) and the re-invention of structural concrete (which had been widely used by the ancient Romans). Building on advances made by English (Issac Newton), Swiss (Leonard Euler and Johann, Jakob, Johann II, and especially Daniel Bernoulli), and Russian (Stephen Timoshenko) scientists, the field of structural engineering was developed using concepts from mathematics, physics, and material science.
The 1960's brought about computer based applications which greatly increased the speed and accuracy of engineering calculations. The handheld calculator in the 1970's and the desk-top personal computer of the 1980's made extremely complex analysis and design a common occurrence. The advanced computer modeling of the 2000's has made possible previously unimaginable structural designs. The current era is an exciting time for structural engineering and Johnson Leifield Structural Engineers is on the cutting-edge of these current developments: