Coulomb read his Essai on some statical problems to the French Academy in 1773. It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of 18th-century civil engineering: the bending of beams, the fracture of columns and the calculation of abutment thrusts developed by masonry arches.It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of eighteenth-century civil engineering: the bending of ...
Title | : | Coulomb's Memoir on Statics |
Author | : | Jacques Heyman |
Publisher | : | World Scientific - 1997-01-01 |
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