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principles of mechanics

  • Figure 1: The position vector  x  and the velocity vector  v  of a material point, the body force fdV acting on an element dV of volume, and the surface force TdS acting on an element dS of surface in a Cartesian coordinate system 1, 2, 3 (see text).
    In mechanics of solids: Beams, columns, plates, and shells

    The 1700s and early 1800s were a productive period during which the mechanics of simple elastic structural elements were developed—well before the beginnings in the 1820s of the general three-dimensional theory. The development of beam theory by Euler, who generally modeled beams as elastic…

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use in building construction

  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: The concrete dome

    Shell construction in concrete also began in the 1920s; the first example was a very thin (6 centimetres) hemispherical shell for a planetarium (1924) in Jena, Germany, spanning 25 metres (82 feet). In 1927 an octagonal ribbed shell dome with a span of 66 metres…

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