Ebook: Structures, Or why things don't fall down

List of Plates; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 The structures in our lives-or how to communicate with engineers; Part One. The difficult birth of the science of elasticity; 2 Why structures carry loads-or the springiness of solids; 3 The invention of stress and strain-or Baron Cauchy and the decipherment of Young's modulus; 4 Designing for safety-or can you really trust strength calculations?; 5 Strain energy and modern fracture mechanics-with a digression on bows, catapults and kangaroos; Part Two. Tension Structures.;"Rich and readable ... personal, witty and ironic."--Scientific American.