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Coulomb's Memoir on Statics: An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering
Coulomb's Memoir on Statics An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering
Author: Jacques Heyman
Coulomb read his "Essai" on "some statical problems" to the French Academy in 1773. It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of 18th-century civil engineering: the bending of beams, the fracture of columns...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521083959
ISBN-10: 0521083958
Publication Date: 8/3/1972
Pages: 221
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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