Download PDF book Structures Or Why Don’t Things Fall Down, which is written by J. E. Gordon.
This PDF book provides a well-structured Explanation of the Subject and quite famous among engineers.
Book Content
Structures Or Why Don’t Things Fall Down book contains a total of 16 Chapters:
1.The structures in our lives or how to communicate with engineers
2. Why structures carry loads- or the springiness of solids
3. The invention of stress and strain or baron Cauchy and the decipherment of young’s modulus
4. Designing for safety or can you really trust strength calculations
5. Stress energy and modern fracture mechanics
6. Tension structures and pressure vessels
7. Joints, fastening and people
8. Soft materials and living structures
9. Walls, archers, and dams
10. Something about bridges
11. The advantages of being a beam
12. The mysteries of shear and torsion
13. The various ways of falling in compression
14. The philosophy of design
15. A chapter of accidents
16. Efficiency and aesthetics or the world in which we have to live in.
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