Is it Strong Enough?

ISBN-13: 9781483447803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 314 str.

Dieter Wieneke

Opis

Whether youre a project manager, engineer, inventor, student, professional consultant, or executive, you need to know if structures are strong enough to do their jobs and maintain the safety of the public.He provides a comprehensive explanation of the four steps that must be undertaken to assess the structure safely:• finding the loads and forces it must endure;• applying some safety factors;• finding the structural details and calculating the stresses; • comparing the stresses to the material strengths.He does this all without requiring readers to do extensive mathematics, and he also outlines when its time to seek help from a professional consultant to answer that critical question: Is it Strong Enough?