Mechanics of Materials (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE SlNC~ 188S, whm the {in;l t:t.litivll vI lhi:; wurk was published. many advances have been made in the subjcct of Mechanics of Materials. Some of these -have been noted in the additions to subsequent editions, but to record and correlate them properl:r it has now become necessary to rewrite and reset the book. In doing so the author has endeavored to keep the facts of experiment and practice constantly in view, for the theory of the subject .is, m~ely the forrr.al expression and generalization of observed phenomena. The subject, indeed, no longer consists of a series of academic exercises in algebra and rational mechanics, but it is indispensably necessary that the phenomena of stress should be clearly understood by the student. While laboratory work is a valuable aid to this end, it is im portant, in the opinion of the author, that no recitation or lecture should be held without having test specimens at hand with whicl: to illustrate the physical phenomena. Th

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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; ELASTIC AND ULTIMATE STRENGTH; Au 1 SIMPLE AXIAL STRESSES; 2 THE ELASTIC LIhIlT; 3 ULT~ATF STRF~~GTB; 4 TE~STO~; 5 COID'RESS[o~; 6 SHEAR; 7 WORKING UNIT-STRESSES; 8 COMPUTATIONS A~D EQUATIONS; CliAPTER II; ELASTIC A~D ULTIMATE DEFORMATION; An 9 MODULUS OP ELASTICITY •; 10 ELASTIC CBA~GE OP L£NGTII •; 11 ELASTIC Lnar A'" YIELD POL'IT; 12 ULTIMATE DUOlWATIONS •; 13 CnANcES nl SEcnON A''D VOItnlE; 14 'WORK IN PRODUCING DEFORllATImJ •; 15 SIrEAlU~G MODULUS 01' ELASTICITY •; 16 HISTOJUCAL KOTES •; ClUPtYR III; MATERIALS OF ENGINEERING; ART 17 AVERAGE WErr-BTS •; 18 Putm:R MATERIALS •; '9; PAG!!!; 4; 6; 9; II; 14; rO; I9; · 23; 25; '17; 30; 32; 35; 37; • 39; 42; 43; 46; · 48; · 50; 52; S5; · 57; 60; 66 CHAPTER IV; CASES OF SnrrLE STRES~; ART 27 STllESS UNDER OWN WEIGHT; 28 B