Text-book on the Strength of Materials

Abstract

THIS book is intended to provide for the needs of engineering students both in the class-room and in the laboratory; hence it is divided into two parts, the first part treating of the theoretical side of the subject and the second dealing with the experimental side. The first two chapters are devoted to a general discussion of the relations between stress and strain as an introduction to the development of the more special rules applicable to the structural forms in common use by engineers and architects. There is an unfortunate slip on p. 10 in the paragraph dealing with the fatigue of metals; in quoting some of the results obtained by Bauschinger in his experiments, the material is stated to have been “cast iron”—it was, of course, “wrought iron.” Chapters iii. and iv. deal with stresses and strains in beams, and there are two useful constructions not usually found in text-books on this subject, namely, a graphical method of finding the centre of gravity and the moment of inertia for a rail, or other similar section, and a graphical solution of the problem of finding the moment of inertia of a reinforced concrete beam of rectangular cross-section.

Text-book on the Strength of Materials.

By S. E. Slocum E. L. Hancock. Pp. xii + 314. (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., n.d.) Price 12s. 6d.