Abstract
THIS text-book, which is based on the notes of lectures given by the author to day and evening students at the Manchester Municipal School of Technology, deals with the fundamental principles which must be mastered by every student who wishes to have a sound knowledge of machine and structural design. Special attention has been devoted to the effects of unequal distribution of stress, and in chapter vii. the author gives details of his own experimental work in connection with this branch of the subject. The last three chapters give an account of the methods adopted and appliances required in making tests of the various materials used in constructional work, and the important subjects of limit of elasticity and of the influence of previous loading, c., upon the limit are discussed. In an appendix is given a table of strengths and weights of a large number of different materials, and there is a collection of useful examination questions for each chapter.
Strength of Materials.
By W. C. Popplewell. Pp. x + 180. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1907.)
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Strength of Materials . Nature 77, 412 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077412a0
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