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Index
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Foreword to First Edition
Foreword to Second Edition
1 The new science of strong materials – or how to ask awkward questions
Part One Elasticity and the theory of strength
2 Stresses and strains – or why you don‘t fall through the floor
3 Cohesion – or now strong ought materials to be?
4 Cracks and dislocations – or why things are weak
Part Two The non-metallic tradition
5 Crack-stopping – or how to be tough
6 Timber and cellulose – or Wooden ships and Iron men
7 Glue and plywood – or mice in the gliders
8 Composite materials – or how to make bricks with straw
Part Three The metallic tradition
9 Ductility in metals – or the intimate life of the dislocation
10 Iron and steel – Hephaistos among the Satanic Mills
11 The materials of the future – or how to have second thoughts
Appendix 1 On the various kinds of solids – and what about treacle?
Note on Conversion of Units
Appendix 2 Simple beam formulae – or do your own stressing
Suggestions for further study
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