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amount of resilience amount of stress angle of repose augmentation axis Cambridge chain component stresses cos² Crown 8vo dead load direction and intensity earth Edition ellipse elongation equal Equating equilibrium Eton College Extra fcap feet long find the intensity find the stress ft.-lbs greater greatest principal stress Hence Hooke's law horizontal inch in section instant internal stress J. P. MAHAFFY LATIN layer length live load modulus of elasticity normal component OM² Owens College pair of rectangular parallelopiped plane BB plane inclined plane of greatest planes of principal position of cc principal stresses Professor proof strain proof stress rectangular planes right angles School shearing shearing stress sin² sloping solid square inch stress on cc stretched surface tangential component tangential stress thrust total stress velocity wall weight
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