Structures or why things don't fall down

By:

Grodon, J. E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Hachette Books 2020Description: 395pISBN:

9780306812835

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

624.17 GOR

Contents:

Contents List of Plates 11 Foreword 13 Acknowledgements 15 1 The structures in our lives - or how to communicate with engineers 17 Part One The difficult birth of the science of elasticity 2 Why structures carry loads - or the springiness of solids 33 3 The invention of stress and strain - or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young's modulus 45 4 Designing for safety- or can you really trust strength calculations? 60 5 Strain energy and modem fracture mechanics - with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos 70 Part Two Tension structures 6 Tension structures and pressure vessels - with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks 113 7 Joints, fastenings and people - also about creep and chariot wheels 132 8 Soft materials and living structures - or how to design a worm 149 Part Three Compression and bending structures 9 Walls, arches and dams-or cloud-capp'd towers and the stability of masonry 171 10 Something about bridges - or Saint Benezet and Saint Isambard 198 11 The advantage of being a beam – with observations on roofs, trusses and masts 210 12 The mysteries of shear and torsion-or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie 245 13 The various ways of failing in compression - or sandwiches, skulls and Dr Euler 272 Part Four And the consequence was … 14 The philosophy of design - or the shape, the weight and the cost 303 15 A chapter of accidents - a study in sin, error and metal fatigue 324 16 Efficiency and aesthetics - or the world we have to live in 354 Appendix 1 Handbooks and formulae 374 Appendix 2 Beam theory 377 Appendix 3 Torsion 384 Appendix 4 The efficiency of columns and panels under compression loads 385 Suggestions for further study 388 Index 391

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	CEPT Library	Faculty of Technology	624.17 GOR	Available			025166
Book	CEPT Library Sch. of Architecture	Faculty of Architecture	624.17 GOR	Available	Status:Catalogued		A07774

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Contents
List of Plates 11
Foreword 13
Acknowledgements 15
1 The structures in our lives - or how to communicate with engineers 17
Part One The difficult birth of the science of elasticity
2 Why structures carry loads - or the springiness of solids 33
3 The invention of stress and strain - or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young's
modulus 45
4 Designing for safety- or can you really trust strength calculations? 60
5 Strain energy and modem fracture mechanics - with a digression on bows, catapults and
kangaroos 70
Part Two Tension structures
6 Tension structures and pressure vessels - with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks 113
7 Joints, fastenings and people - also about creep and chariot wheels 132
8 Soft materials and living structures - or how to design a worm 149
Part Three Compression and bending structures
9 Walls, arches and dams-or cloud-capp'd towers and the stability of masonry 171
10 Something about bridges - or Saint Benezet and Saint Isambard 198
11 The advantage of being a beam – with observations on roofs, trusses and masts 210
12 The mysteries of shear and torsion-or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie 245
13 The various ways of failing in compression - or sandwiches, skulls and Dr Euler 272
Part Four And the consequence was …
14 The philosophy of design - or the shape, the weight and the cost 303
15 A chapter of accidents - a study in sin, error and metal fatigue 324
16 Efficiency and aesthetics - or the world we have to live in 354
Appendix 1 Handbooks and formulae 374
Appendix 2 Beam theory 377
Appendix 3 Torsion 384
Appendix 4 The efficiency of columns and panels under compression loads 385
Suggestions for further study 388
Index 391

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