Gordon, J.E. creator text New York Hachette Books 2020 monographic eng

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395p. 1.Structures in our lives – or how to communicate with engineers p.17, Part One: The difficult birth of the science of elasticity p.31, Chapter 2. Why structures carry loads - or the springiness of solids p.33, Chapter 3. The invention of stress and strain– or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young’s modulus p.45, Chapter 4. Designing for safety - or can you really trust strength calculations? p.60, Chapter 5. Strain energy and modern fracture mechanics - with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos p.70, Part Two: Tension structures p.111, Chapter 6. Tension structures and pressure vessels - with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks p.113, Chapter 7. Joints, fastenings and people - also about creep and chariot wheels p.132, Chapter 8. Soft materials and living structures - or how to design a worm p.149, Part Three: Compression and bending structures p.169, Chapter 9. Walls, arches and dams - or cloud-capp’d towers and the stability of masonry p.171, Chapter 10. Something about bridges - or Saint Benezet and Saint Isambard p.198, Chapter 11. The advantage of being a beam - with observations on roofs, trusses and masts p.210, Chapter 12. The mysteries of shear and torsion - or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie p.245, Chapter 13. The various ways of failing in compression - or sandwiches; skulls and Dr Euler p.272, Part Four: And the consequence was...p.301, Chapter 14. The philosophy of design – or the shape, the weight and the cost p.303, Chapter 15. A chapter of accidents - a study in sin, error and metal fatigue p.324, Chapter 16. Efficiency and aesthetics - or the world we have to live in p.354 Structures 690.21 GOR 9780306812835 221018 20221105114155.0