Some celebrated contributors to the strength and processing of materials

• Book ID: 104140186
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 74 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7403
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7403(02)00010-3

✦ Synopsis

Preface, Introduction and Contents were translated by Professor Kolmogorov from this volume which has recently appeared in Russian. Professor Kolmogorov has also o ered some of his own comments and observations and these are appended.

This work was not able to be published in Moscow for some considerable time for want of funding, see below. It was hoped, initially, that the volume might appear in English, but unfortunately this was not able to be arranged. It is the opinion of the writers that the book would be of interest to many in the West for them to see how the subject was perceived from Russia, viewed as much from the past as the present.

It may be noted that the history of the discovery of the basic laws and the determination of the formulae of the Strength of Materials are expounded in the order in which they occur in courses on the subject and not as they were obtained originally, chronologically. At the end of each chapter there are biographies of the scientists whose names are presented in the chapters. Publications on the history of Strength of Materials, the Theory of Elasticity, Structural Mechanics and original works, are listed in the References.