Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This book has been written mainly for Engineering students, and covers the necessary ground for University and similar examinations in Strength of Materials; but it is hoped that it will also prove useful to many practical engineers, to whom a knowledge of the subject is necessary. In some sections of the work well-established lines have been followed, but several special features may be mentioned. In Chap. II. the different theories of elastic strength are explained, and subsequently throughout the book the different formulae to which they lead in cases of compound stress are pointed out. Considerable use has been made of the method of finding beam deflections from the moment of the area of the bending-moment diagram, ue. from the summation gr ;niy attention was called to the very simple application of this method to the solution of problems on built-in and continuous beams developed in Chap. VII., by my friend Prof. J. H. Smith, D.S c. Other subjects treated, which have hitherto received but scant attention in text-book ,include the strength of. rotating discs and cylinders, the bending of ciurved bars with applications to hooks rings, and links, the strength of unstayed fiat plates, and the stresses and instability arising from certain speeds of running machinery. Most of the important research work bearing on Strength of Materials has been noticed, and numerous easily accessible references to original papers have been given. Most of the results involving even simple mathematical demonstrations have been worked out in detail; experience shows that careful readers lose much time through being unable to bridge easily the gaps frequently left in such work. Many fully worked-out numerical examples have been given, and the reader is advised to read all of these, and to work out for himself the examples given at the ends of the chapters, as being a great help t
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