I have to thank a great many people for factual information, suggestions and for stimulating and sometimes heated discussions. For this reason a certain amount of repeti- tion has been unavoidable in the earlier chapters.
Although this volume is more or less a sequel to The New Science of Strong Materials it can be read as an entirely separate book in its own right. Some of the omis- sions and oversimplifications are intentional but no doubt some of them are due to my own brute ignorance and lack of under- standing of the subject. Indeed it is only when the subject is stripped of its mathematics that one begins to realize how difficult it is to pin down and describe those structural concepts which are often called' elementary' by which I suppose we mean 'basic' or 'fundamental'. I am very much aware that it is an act of extreme rashness to attempt to write an elementary book about structures. This Description may be from another edition of this product.
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