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Structures or Why things don’t fall down

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The structures in our lives — or how to communicate with engineers
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    Chapter 2 Why structures carry loads or the springiness of solids
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    Chapter 3 The invention of stress and strain — or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young’s modulus
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    Chapter 4 Designing for safety — or can you really trust strength calculations?
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    Chapter 5 Strain energy and modern fracture mechanics — with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos
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    Chapter 6 Tension structures and pressure vessels — with some remarks on boilers, bats and Chinese junks
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    Chapter 7 Joints, fastenings and people — also about creep and chariot wheels
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    Chapter 8 Soft materials and living structures — or how to design a worm
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    Chapter 9 Walls, arches and dams — or cloud-capp’d towers and the stability of masonry
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    Chapter 10 Something about bridges — or Saint Bénezèt and Saint Isambard
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    Chapter 11 The advantage of being a beam — with observations on roofs, trusses and masts
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    Chapter 12 The mysteries of shear and torsion — or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie
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    Chapter 13 The various ways of failing in compression — or sandwiches, skulls and Dr Euler
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    Chapter 14 The philosophy of design — or the shape, the weight and the cost
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    Chapter 15 A chapter of accidents — a study in sin, error and metal fatigue
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    Chapter 16 Efficiency and aesthetics — or the world we have to live in
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