Coulomb's Memoir on Statics: An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering

by Heyman, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9781860940569
• ISBN10: 1860940560
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 The ESSAI	1; 41	(34)
Notes	70	(5)
2 Coulomb's References	75	(14)
Gregory	75	(1)
Amontons	76	(1)
Bossut	77	(3)
Musschenbroek	80	(1)
Euler	81	(1)
James Bernoulli	81	(1)
La Hire	82	(2)
Belidor	84	(5)
3 The Strength and Stiffness of Beams	89	(21)
The strength of beams (1)	90	(7)
Coulomb's Essai	97	(3)
The strength of beams (2)	100	(1)
Navier and Saint- Venant	101	(4)
The stiffness of beams	105	(5)
4 Coulomb's Equation	110	(14)
The Mohr-Coulomb criterion	113	(3)
Upper bounds from velocity fields	116	(4)
Coulomb's material tests	120	(4)
5 The Thrust of Soil	124	(38)
Coulomb's problem (1); c = 0	132	(5)
Coulomb's problem (2); (c, XXX)	137	(3)
The stability of a vertical cut (1); XXX = 0	140	(3)
The stability of a vertical cut (2); (c, XXX)	143	(1)
Thrust against a rough retaining wall; c = 0	144	(3)
Drucker's theorems	147	(1)
Nineteenth-century work	148	(8)
Sokolovskii	156	(4)
Critical state theory	160	(2)
6 The Thrust of Arches	162	(28)
The plastic theorems applied to masonry	162	(6)
Eighteenth-century work (1)	168	(2)
Couplet	170	(5)
Eighteenth-century work (2)	175	(6)
Coulomb and Bossut	181	(2)
The nineteenth century and later	183	(6)
Scholium	189	(1)
7 Some Historical Notes	190	(9)
Technical education in France	191	(3)
Coulomb's early life	194	(1)
The Essai	195	(2)
Coulomb's later life	197	(2)
References	199	(8)
Name Index	207	(3)
Subject Index	210