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Jan 1930
One Hundred Fifty Years Advance in Structural Analysis
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Volume 94, Issue 1
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The story of the advance of structural analysis is, in the main, an account of the work done by individual men. While the science of structural analysis is international, at the same time its national traditions are significant. In the French tradition the names of Coulomb, Navicr, and Saint-Venant stand out; in the English tradition the name of Rankine; in the German, the names of Mohr, Müller-Breslau, and Föppl; and there is a Russian tradition which may be traced back to the influence of Euler. The account which follows begins, somewhat arbitrarily, but (as will be seen) not entirely without justification, with the work of Coulomb. Consideration is given, however, to his predecessors. An attempt is made to sketch the development from this early period to the present.
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Published in print: Jan 1930
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H. M. Westergaard, M.ASCE
Prof. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
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