The Mechanical Properties of Metals

analysis, is further illustrated by the fact that the last four pages of the book contain numerical data on the thermal and creep constants of commonly used engineering materials, while the preceding eleven pages present the most significant properties of Cartesian tensors.Problems of stress distribution, including thermal stresses and stress relaxation, and stability are treated, and solutions are presented for rods, beams, thick-walled tubes, plates, and shells.Many of the solutions were first obtained by the two authors, but they also show an unusually broad acquaintance with the work of others, particularly in the United States and in the Soviet Union; the list of references contains almost 250 entries.Since the book deals with the effects of creep only in metallic elements of structures and machinery in which the strain rate increases much more rapidly with increasing stress than proportionally, linearly viscoelastic materials are not treated in detail in the volume.