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Simplified mechanics & strength of materials
- Title
- Simplified mechanics & strength of materials / James Ambrose ; based on the work of the late Harry Parker.
- Author
- Ambrose, James E.
- Publication
- New York, NY : J. Wiley, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Parker, Harry, 1887-1974.
- Description
- xiv, 416 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Parker-Ambrose series of simplified design guides
- Uniform Title
- Parker-Ambrose series of simplified design guides.
- Alternative Title
- Simplified mechanics and strength of materials
- Subject
- Note
- Rev. ed. of Simplified mechanics and strength of materials / Harry Parker. 5th ed. 1992.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Structural Mechanics -- Accuracy of Computations -- Structures: Purpose and Function -- Loads -- Special Considerations for Loads -- Generation of Structures -- Reactions -- Internal Forces -- Functional Requirements of Structures -- Types of Internal Force -- Stress and Strain -- Dynamic Effects -- Design for Structural Response -- Forces and Force Actions -- Loads and Resistance -- Forces and Stresses -- Types of Forces -- Vectors -- Properties of Forces -- Motion -- Force Components and Combinations -- Graphical Analysis of Forces -- Investigation of Force Actions -- Friction -- Moments -- Forces on a Beam -- Analysis of Trusses -- Graphical Analysis of Trusses -- Algebraic Analysis of Trusses -- The Method of Sections -- Analysis of Beams -- Types of Beams -- Loads and Reactions -- Shear in Beams -- Bending Moments in Beams -- Sense of Bending in Beams -- Cantilever Beams -- Tabulated Values for Beam Behavior -- Continuous and Restrained Beams -- Bending Moments for Continuous Beams -- Restrained Beams -- Beams with Internal Pins -- Approximate Analysis of Continuous Beams -- Retaining Walls -- Horizontal Earth Pressure -- Stability of Retaining Walls -- Vertical Soil Pressure -- Rigid Frames -- Cantilever Frames -- Single-Span Frames -- Noncoplanar Force Systems -- Concurrent Systems -- Parallel Systems -- General Noncoplanar Systems -- Properties of Sections -- Centroids -- Moment of Inertia -- Transferring Moments of Inertia -- Miscellaneous Properties -- Tables of Properties of Sections.
- ISBN
- 0471400521
- 9780471400523
- 9788126537631
- 8126537639
- LCCN
- 2001039013
- OCLC
- ocm47018535
- 47018535
- SCSB-1249743
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library