Strength of materials is that branch of engineering concerned with the deformation and disruption of solids when forces other than changes in position or equili

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Four decades ago, J.P. Den Hartog, then Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote Strength of Materials, an elementary