(1) Strength of Materials: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the BSc (Eng), AMICE, and AMIMechE Examinations in this Subject (2) Mechanics of Materials (3) Examples in the Strength and Elasticity of Materials

Abstract

THE study of the strength of materials, based on one hand upon the ideal theories of elasticity and, on the other, upon experimental data, is a growth of the last hundred and fifty years. Galileo, in the sixteenth century, made experiments upon beams and deduced a theory of the stresses due to bending, which gave a formula for a rectangular beam correct in form but incorrect so far as the constants were concerned, due to a false assumption as to the position of the neutral axis. It was not until 1825 that Navier gave the correct solution of the distribution of stress in a beam subjected to bending, his solution being based upon Hooke's Law and on the justifiable assumption that the sum of all the forces upon any section in equilibrium must be equal to zero. At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, experimental research supplemented theory, and during the last hundred years a great body of knowledge has been accumulated upon a subject of importance to engineering in all its branches, as well as to building and architecture, and, to-day, perhaps no one subject is studied by a greater number of technical students than that of the strength of materials.

(1) Strength of Materials: a Textbook covering the Syllabuses of the B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.C.E., and A.M.I.Mech.E. Examinations in this Subject.

By Dr. F. V. Warnock. (Engineering Degree Series.) Pp. ix + 366. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 12s. 6d. net.

(2) Mechanics of Materials.

By Prof. George Young Jr. Prof. Hubert Eugene Baxter. (Engineering Science Series.) Pp. viii + 451. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1927.) 17s. net.

(3) Examples in the Strength and Elasticity of Materials.

By G. W. Bird. Pp. 196. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1927.) 10s. 6d. net.