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|a Gordon, J. E.
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|d 1913-1998.
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|a Structures
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|a Structures, or, Why things don't fall down /
|c J.E. Gordon.
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|a Why things don't fall down
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|a 2nd Da Capo Press ed.
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|a New York :
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|c 2003.
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|a 395 p. :
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|a Originally published: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1978.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [388]-390) and index.
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|a The structure in our lives - or how to communicate with engineers -- The difficult birth of the science of elasticity. Why structures carry loads - or the springiness of solids -- The invention of stress and strain - or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young's modulus -- Designing for safety - or can you really trust strength calculations? -- Strain energy and modern fracture mechanics - with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos -- Tension structures. Tension structures and pressure vessels - with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks -- Joints, fastenings and people - also about creep and chariot wheels -- Soft materials and living structures - or how to design a worm -- Compression and bending structures. Walls, arches and dams - or cloud-capp'd towers and the stability of masonry -- Something about bridges - or Saint Bénexèt and Saint Isambard -- The advantage of being a beam - with observations on roofs, trusses and masts -- The mysteries of shear and torsion - or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie -- The various ways of failing in compression - or sandwiches, skulls and Dr. Euler -- And the consequence was . . . the philosophy of design - or the shape, the weight and the cost -- A chapter of accidents - a study in sin, error and metal fatigue -- Efficiency and aesthetics - or the world we have to live in -- Appendix 1. Handbooks and formulae -- Appendix 2. Beam theory -- Appendix 3. Torsion -- Appendix 4. The efficiency of columns and panels under compression loads.
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