Coulomb's Memoir on Statics: An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860940569)

Coulomb read his Essai on 'some statical problems' to the French Academy in 1773. It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of eighteenth-century civil engineering: the bending of beams, the fracture of columns and the calculation of abutment thrusts developed by masonry arches.Professor Heyman's book makes the Essai accessible to a wide range of engineers and historians of technology. It is here reproduced in full with an annotated English translation, a chapter elucidating Coulomb's references and with full discussion of the technical problems it treats. It concludes with some brief historical notes on Coulomb's life and technical education in eighteenth-century France.

Author: Jacques Heyman
ISBN-10: 1860940560
ISBN-13: 9781860940569
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1997
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.80d