Name: Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
Author: J. E. Gordon
ISBN: 9780306812835

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GORDON, J. E.

Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down

2003

1. Science and Tech

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J. E. Gordon Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down Overview J. E. Gordon’s Structures is a popular engineering book with a rare temperament: it explains beams, arches, shells, cracks, joints, buckling, pressure vessels and fatigue as parts of ordinary human life rather than as a closed professional language. Its governing question is literal and wonderfully basic: why do things stand up, and why do they sometimes stop standing up? Gordon answers by moving between the bridge, the ship, the cathedral, the spider web, the bird bone, the blood vessel,…

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Accession:FL-0084

ISBN-13:9780306812835

Published:2003

Language:en

Shelved under:Science and Tech

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