5299 Alexander Zives STRUCTURAL MECHANICS. A HANDBOOK FOR ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, ichard Marion BY PARKINSON, Assoc. M.I.C.E. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1890. PREFACE. THE following pages have been written with the view of supplying a want which the author has himself experienced in the study of practical mechanics; for, although there are many treatises on the subject, there is not one which takes the student direct from the simpler to the more complicated problems which occur in practice. The elementary portion is, however, treated in as short a way as possible, the chief part of the space being devoted to the solution of problems which can only be gathered from a number of different books, such as the works of Baker, Barlow, Box, and Twisden, and the papers by Bell, Christie, Clarke, and Fidler, in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers, and these the author has freely consulted. While designed for the student, it is intended that the work should be useful for every-day reference in the engineer's and architect's office, and for this purpose the examples which are given are all either of practical application or else are designed for the purpose of comparing calculated results with actual experiments, and so establishing the formulæ in the most satisfactory way. 15, GREAT GEORGE STREET, WESTMINSTER. |