Structural mechanics; comprising the strength and resistance of materials and elements of structural design (1905)
Greene, Charles E. (Charles Ezra), 1842-1903, Greene, Albert Emerson. [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 201
to an elon-gation of one diagonal and a shortening of the other in equal proportions. Example.—For steel, as before, X= , d> = = 44 c, if j>\ — * 1,450 r 725 * ^ tl — />2= 20,000 lb. 173. Modulus of Shearing Elasticity.—Similarly, equal shear-ing stresses q on two pairs of faces of a cube,… … INTERNAL STRESS: CHANGE OF FORM. 187 Under the law which has been proved true within the elasticlimit, and the definition of the modulus ofelasticity, § 10, a modulus of transverse (orshearing) elasticity, C, also called coefficientof rigidity, as E may be called coefficient ofstiffness, may be…
