Strength of materials is that branch of engineering concerned with the deformation and disruption of solids when forces other than changes in position or equili

Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary

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