Structural Materials

by Peter Lewis and Editors Weidmann, George., Lewis, Peter., Reid., Nick.

The focus of this book is on load-bearing materials. Taken literally, this would first include virtually every solid material. A coat of paint, for example, is both protective and aesthetic, but it can also carry loads when things impinge on it or when its substrate is strained. Secondly, liquids and gases such as the fluid in a shock absorber, or the air in a car tyre, are also load bearing. The text however, confines itself primarily to solid materials...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0408046589
• ISBN13: 9780408046589
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Materials Dept. Open University
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.