The Elements of the Mechanics of Materials and of Power Transmission (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Elements of the Mechanics of Materials and of Power Transmission This book is the result of an experience of some years in classroom work with engineering students, and is intended for use in technical schools and colleges. It has frequently occurred to me that there is needless obscurity of statement in the average engineering text, with the consequent discouragement and retardation of young students. It has been my aim, therefore, to characterize the demonstrations in this text by completeness and simplicity of statement, in the belief that such treatment will greatly facilitate the study of more advanced works. The Calculus has been introduced necessarily, but only in its elementary form, and chiefly in demonstrations and solutions. Such use of it will be, I believe, beneficial to the young student in showing him possibilities in the application of the subject to practical problems. The book is in two parts. Part I is devoted to the elements of the Mechanics of Materials, and Part II to the elements of Power Transmission. It has been the aim to present both subjects only to the extent that will impart such a working knowledge of the fundamentals as will enable the student to grasp more extended works without aid. Much of the matter on iron and steel in Chapter IX, Part I, has been taken by permission from Durand's "Practical Marine Engineering, " and the chief sources of reference have been the works of Goodman and Unwin. I am under obligation to my assistants in engineering, William L. De Baufre, Charles E. Conway, and Samuel P. Platt, - to the first two for valuable aid and suggestion and to the third for the care with which he made the tracings for the cuts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.