Second Edition. 11 cm x 18 cm. 287 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Elasticity and the theory of strength / Cracks and dislocations - or why things are weak / Crack-stopping - or how to be tough / Iron and steel - Hephaistos among the Satanic Mills / Appendix 1: On the various kinds of solids - and what about treacle? / Appendix 2: Simple beam formulae - or do your own stressing etc. Sprache: english.

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Title

The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor.

Publisher

London etc. Penguin.

Publication Date

1978

Language

English

ISBN 10

0140209204

ISBN 13

9780140209204

Binding

Soft cover

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Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials. All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems. During the 250 years up to the 1920s and 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice. But materials continued to do things that they "ought" not to have done. Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach. Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials. They have found many surprises; above all, perhaps, that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly - or imperfectly - its atoms are arranged. Using both SI and imperial units, Professor Gordon's account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious and entertaining ways in which scientists isolate and solve problems.

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"I found Gordon's writing style fascinating; his book reads like a novel, and the technical content is superb."--Enoch J. Durbin, Princeton University

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