Abstract
So many textbooks have been written on the subject of structural statics that it must have become a somewhat difficult matter to find any fresh aspect of presentation. The authors of the present work, however, very properly and consistently emphasise the application of fundamental principles to all constructional problems, and this attitude constitutes the keynote of their treatment. They deprecate merely graphical methods, which?have a tendency to leave the student with the memory of a method of construction and only a vague notion of the principles ‘involved'. Certainly, they have produced a very clear and concise exposition of the subject, which students should have no difficulty in assimilating, while the abundance of problems set provides an ample field for testing the knowledge acquired. Written by two American university professors, the purview of the photographic illustrations is largely trans-Atlantic, but the examples are interesting and helpful, while the diagrams generally are very clear and comprehensible.
Theory of Simple Structures.
Prof.
T. C.
Shedd
Prof.
J.
Vawter
By. Pp. + 345. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1931.) 22s. 3d. net.
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C., B. Theory of Simple Structures. Nature 130, 189 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130189c0
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