Excerpt from The Testing of Materials of Construction: A Text-Book for the Engineering Laboratory and a Collection of the Results of Experiment
The present work is a treatise on the Strength of the Materials used in Construction, considered in connec tion with the instruments and methods by which the mechanical properties of materials are investigated experimentally.
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