| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1838 - 822 pages
...on is considerable. From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...much greater load than has hitherto been conceived. When a body is subjected to a transverse strain some of its particles are extended and others compressed... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1838 - 824 pages
...on is considerable. From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...much greater load than has hitherto been conceived. When a body is subjected to a transverse strain some of its particles are extended and others compressed... | |
| Meteorology - 1839 - 938 pages
...on is considerable. From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...much greater load than has hitherto been conceived. When a body is subjected to a transverse strain, some of its particles are extended and others compressed;... | |
| Dennis Hart Mahan - 1846 - 380 pages
...very early period." "From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...compensating fact, that materials will bear for an indefinite period a much greater load than has hitherto been conceived." 313. "We may admit," from the mean results,... | |
| Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1846 - 378 pages
...very early period." " From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...compensating fact, that materials will bear for an indefinite period a much greater load than has hitherto been conceived." 313. "We may admit," from the mean results,... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1848 - 674 pages
...explanation of the fact observed by Mr. Hodgkinson, I do not think we are to conclude with him, that " tlie maxim of loading bodies within the elastic limit has no foundation in nature." It appears to me that the defect of elasticity which he has shown to occur even with тегу slight... | |
| William Laxton - Architecture - 1849 - 486 pages
...the explanation of the fact observed by Mr. Hodgkinson, I do not think we are to conclude with him, that " the maxim of loading bodies within the elastic limit has no foundation in nature." It appears to me that the defect of elasticity which he has shown to occur even with very slight strains,... | |
| Dennis Hart Mahan - Civil engineering - 1852 - 420 pages
...very early period." " From what has been stated above, deduced from experiments made with great care, it is evident that the maxim of loading bodies within...compensating fact, that materials will bear for an indefinite period a much greater load than has hitherto been conceived." 313. "We may admit," from the mean results,... | |
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