Understanding structural engineering : from theory to practice

• Main Author: Chen, Wai-Fah, 1936-
• Other Authors: El-Metwally, Salah El-Din E.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2011.
• Subjects: Structural engineering.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781439827116; 1439827117; 9781439827109; 1439827109; 1523134410; 9781523134410; 0429151659; 9780429151651
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations

"From science to engineering and from theory to practice, it illustrates different breakthroughs, traced back to their origin and placed into prospective. First, the text presents the fundamental laws of mechanics, the theory of elasticity, and the development of the generalized stress-generali...