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Structural analysis : a historical approach
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- Creator
- Jacques Heyman
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- English
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
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- xii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521622493, 0521622492
- OCLC
- ocm37315233
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and indexes.
- 1. Galileo's Problem. 1.1. The Dialogues -- 2. The Moment of Resistance. 2.1. Mariotte 1686. 2.2. Leibniz and James Bernoulli. 2.3. Parent 1713. 2.4. Belidor 1729. 2.5. Coulomb 1773. 2.6. The early nineteenth century. 2.7. Navier 1826 and Saint-Venant 1864. 2.8. The full plastic moment. 2.9. Axial load. 2.10. Plastic bending about two axes -- 3. The Effect of Shear. 3.1. Navier 1826, 1833. 3.2. Saint-Venant 1855, 1856, 1864. 3.3. Thin-walled sections. 3.4. Plastic solutions -- 4. Elastic Flexure and Buckling. 4.1. James and Daniel Bernoulli. 4.2. Euler and the elastica. 4.3. Buckling of columns: the nineteenth century. 4.4. Perry-Robertson. 4.5. Lateral-torsional buckling. 4.6. Horne 1954 -- 5. The Masonry Arch. 5.1. Robert Hooke 1675. 5.2. La Hire 1695, 1712. 5.3. Couplet 1729, 1730. 5.4. The dome of St. Peter's. 5.5. Coulomb 1773. 5.6. The plastic theorems -- 6. Elastic Beams and Frames. 6.1. Girard 1798. 6.2. Navier 1826. 6.3. Slope-deflexion equations. 6.4. Hardy Cross 1930. 6.5. Reciprocal theorems. 6.6. Indirect model tests. 6.7. General structural theory -- 7. The Trussed Framework. 7.1. Navier. 7.2. Maxwell 1864. 7.3. Virtual work. 7.4. Energy methods -- 8. Scholium 1. 8.1. Secondary stresses. 8.2. Nineteenth-century experiments -- 9. Plastic Theory. 9.1. Kazinczy. 9.2. The 1936 Berlin Congress. 9.3. Maier-Leibnitz. 9.4. F. Bleich. 9.5. Melan. 9.6. J. F. Baker. 9.7. Gvozdev 1936. 9.8. Proofs of the plastic theorems. 9.9. Methods of calculation. 9.10. Shakedown and incremental collapse. 9.11. Coda -- 10. Scholium 2. 10.1. Hambly's paradox. 10.2. The elastic design process. 10.3. Simple plastic design. 10.4. Design with unstable elements. 10.5. Conclusion