Strain Energy Methods of Stress Analysis

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Longman's, Green and Company Limited, 1928 - Technology & Engineering - 146 pages

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Page 12 - According to this principle, the strains that are produced in a body by the application, to a small part of its surface, of a system of forces statically equivalent to zero force and zero couple, are of negligible magnitude at distances which are large compared with the linear dimensions of the part.
Page 76 - On a Method for the Direct Design of Framed Structures having Redundant Bracing," AJS Pippard, Reports and Memoranda, No.
Page 31 - This equation is generally referred to as the principle of least work, since it is the condition that the force, Pab, in the bar be such as to make the strain energy of the system a minimum.
Page 1 - S are in equilibrium, each will be equal and opposite to the sum of the components of the...
Page 24 - W1, is the same as the deflection at A in the direction of Wj when a unit load acts at B in the direction of Wa.
Page 17 - P within the limits of proportionality, where L is the length of the specimen and A is its cross-sectional area.

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