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APPENDIX A
Numerical Accuracy
In engineering problems of practical significance, the data are seldom known with
an accuracy greater than 0.2%. Hence, the answers to such problems should not be
written with an accuracy greater than 0.2%. Calculations are often performed by
electronic calculators and computers, usually carrying eight or nine digits. So, the
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possibility exists that numerical result will be reported to an accuracy that has no
physical meaning. Throughout this book, we usually follow a common engineering
rule to report the final results of calculations:
Daily Planning
Learning to pay attention to our own internal body clock, or brain cells controlling
the timing of our behavior, and daily planning can help us make the best of our
time. A tentative schedule for the “morning person” who prefers to wake up early
and go to sleep early is given in Table A.1 (Ref. A.1). The “evening person” works
late and wakes up late. Most individuals may shift times from one to another and
others combine some characteristics of both.
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REFERENCE
A.1. UGURAL, A. C., Living Better: A Guide to Health, Happiness, and Managing
Stress, Eloquent Books, New York, 2009, Sec. 20.
(www.eloquentbooks.com or www.amazon.com)
Reference 639
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APPENDIX B
There are many methods in common usage for solving a cubic equation. A simple
approach for dealing with Eq. (1.33) is to find one root, say 1, by plotting it ( as
abscissa) or by trial and error. The cubic equation is then factored by dividing by
1p - 12 to arrive at a quadratic equation. The remaining roots can be obtained
by applying the familiar general solution of a quadratic equation. This process
requires considerable time and algebraic work, however.
What follows is a practical approach for determining the roots-of-stress cubic
equation (1.33):
where
I1 = x + y + z
I2 = xy + xz + yz - 2xy - 2yz - 2xz (B.1)
I3 = xyz + 2xyyzxz - x2yz - y2xz - z2xy
According to the method, expressions that provide direct means for solving both
two- and three-dimensional stress problems are [Refs. B.1 and B.2]
a = 2S[cos1␣/32] + 13I1
b = 2S5cos[1␣/32 + 120°]6 + 13I1 (B.2)
1
c = 2S5cos[1␣/32 + 240°]6 + 3 I1
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S = 113R21/2
␣ = cos-1 a- b
Q
2T
R = 13I21 - I2 (B.3)
1 2 3
Q = 3 I1I2 - I3 - 27 I1
T = 1271 R321/2
and invariants I1, I2, and I3 are represented in terms of the given stress components
by Eqs. (B.1).
The principal stresses found from Eqs. (B.2) are redesignated using numerical
subscripts so that 1 7 2 7 3. This procedure is well adapted to a pocket calcula-
tor or digital computer.
The values of the direction cosines of a principal stress are determined through the
use of Eqs. (1.31) and (1.25), as discussed in Section 1.13. That is, substitution of a
principal stress, say 1, into Eqs. (1.31) results in two independent equations in three
unknown direction cosines. From these expressions, together with l21 + m21 + n21 = 1,
we obtain l1, m1, and n1.
However, instead of solving one second-order and two linear equations simulta-
neously, the following simpler approach is preferred. Expressions (1.31) are expressed
in matrix form as follows:
The cofactors of the determinant of this matrix on the elements of the first row are
1y - i2
ai = ` `
yz
yz 1z - i2
bi = - ` `
xy yz
1z - i2
(B.4)
xz
1y - i2
ci = ` `
xy
xz yz
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1
ki =
1a2i + c2i 21/2
(B.5)
+ b2i
We then have
R = 13I21 - I2 = 342.5758
T = 1271 R321/2 = 1220.2623
Q = 13I1I2 - I3 - 2 3
27 I1 = -488.5896
␣ = cos-11-Q/2T2 = 78.4514°
14.6 - 11.6182
a1 = ` ` = 0.5445
11.8
11.8 1-8.3 - 11.6182
b1 = - ` ` = -17.5046
-4.7 11.8
6.45 1-8.3 - 11.6182
14.6 - 11.6182
c1 = ` ` = -10.1939
-4.7
6.45 11.8
and
1
k1 = = 0.0493
1a21 + b21 + c2121/2
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As a check, l21 + m21 + n21 = 0.9999 L 1. Repeating the same procedure for 2 and
3, we obtain the values of direction cosines given in Example 1.6.
A FORTRAN computer program is listed in Table B.1 to expedite the solution for
the principal stresses and associated direction cosines. Input data and output values
are also provided. The program was written and tested on a digital computer. Note
that this listing may readily be extended to obtain the factors of safety according to
the various theories of failure (Chap. 4).
REFERENCES
B.1. MESSAL, E. E., Finding true maximum shear stress, Mach. Des.,
December 7, 1978, pp. 166–169.
B.2. TERRY, E. S., A Practical Guide to Computer Methods for Engineers, Prentice
Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1979.
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APPENDIX C
C.1 CENTROID
Qx = y dA, Qy = x dA (C.1)
LA LA
These properties are expressed in cubic meters or cubic millimeters in SI units and
in cubic feet or cubic inches in U.S. Customary Units. The centroid of area A is
denoted by point C, whose coordinates x and y satisfy the relations
x dA y dA
Qy LA Qx LA
x = = , y = = (C.2)
A A
dA dA
LA LA
When an axis possesses an axis of symmetry, the centroid is located on that axis,
as the first moment about an axis of symmetry equals zero. When there are two axes
of symmetry, the centroid lies at the intersection of the two axes. If an area pos-
sesses no axes of symmetry but does have a center of symmetry, the centroid coin-
cides with the center of symmetry.
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1. Rectangle 5. Circle
y A = bh y A = πr2
bh3 πr 4
Ix = Ix =
12 4
h h x C
C bh(b2 + h2) r x Jc =
πr 2
2 Jc = 4
12
b
A
C x
x dA
y
ρ y
O x
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1h - y2 dy
b
dA =
h
The first moment of the area with respect to the x axis is
b h
Qx = y dA = 1hy - y22 dy = 1
6 bh2
LA h L0
The second of Eqs. (C.2), with A = bh/2, then yields
bh2/6
y = = 13h (a)
bh/2
Therefore, the centroidal axis x of the triangular area is located a dis-
tance of one-third the altitude from the base of the triangle.
Similarly, choosing the element of area dA as a vertical strip, it can
be shown that the abscissa of the centroid is x = b/3. The location of the
centroid C is shown in the figure.
Frequently, an area can be divided into simple geometric shapes (for example,
rectangles, circles, and triangles) whose areas and centroidal coordinates are known
or easily determined. When a composite area is considered as an assemblage of n
elementary shapes, the resultant or total area is the algebraic sum of the separate
areas, and the resultant moment about any axis is the algebraic sum of the moments
of the component areas. Thus, the centroid of a composite area has the coordinates
©Aixi ©Aiyi
x = , y = (C.3)
©Ai ©Ai
in which xi and yi represent the coordinates of the centroids of the component
areas A i1i = 1, 2, Á , n2.
In applying formulas (C.3), it is important to sketch the simple geometric forms
into which the composite area is resolved, as shown next.
dy y
h b
y 3 x
C h
3 x
b
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x = 35
Ix = y 2 dA, Iy = x2 dA (C.4)
LA LA
where x and y are the coordinates of the element of area dA (Fig. C.1).
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Similarly, the polar moment of inertia of a plane area A with respect to an axis
through O perpendicular to the area is given by
Jo = 2 dA = Ix + Iy (C.5)
LA
Here is the distance from point O to the element dA, and 2 = x2 + y2. The
product of inertia of a plane area A with respect to the x and y axes is defined as
Ixy = xy dA (C.6)
LA
In the foregoing, each element of area dA is multiplied by the product of its coordi-
nates (Fig. C.1). The product of inertia of an area about any pair of axes is zero
when either of the axes is an axis of symmetry.
From Eqs. (C.4) and (C.5), it is clear that the moments of inertia are always
positive quantities because coordinates x and y are squared. Their dimensions are
length raised to the fourth power; typical units are meters4, millimeters4, and
inches4. The dimensions of the product of inertia are the same as for the moments
of inertia; however, the product of inertia can be positive, negative, or zero depend-
ing on the values of the product xy.
The radius of gyration is a distance from a reference axis or a point at which
the entire area of a section may be considered to be concentrated and still possess
the same moment of inertia as the original area. Therefore, the radii of gyration of
an area A about the x and y axes and the origin O (Fig. C.1) are defined as the
quantities rx, ry, and ro, respectively:
Ix Iy Jo
rx = , ry = , ro = (C.7)
AA AA AA
Substituting Ix, Iy, and Jo from Eqs. (C.7) into Eq. (C.5) results in
r2o = r2x + r2y (C.8)
The radius of gyration has the dimension of length, expressed in meters.
The moment of inertia of an area with respect to any axis is related to the moment
of inertia around a parallel axis through the centroid by the parallel-axis theorem,
sometimes called the transfer formula. It is useful for determining the moment of
inertia of an area composed of several simple shapes.
To develop the parallel-axis theorem, consider the area A depicted in Fig. C.4.
Let x and y represent the centroidal axes of the area, parallel to the axes x and y,
respectively. The distances between the two sets of axes and the origin are dx, dy,
and do. The moment of inertia with respect to the x axis is
Ix = 1y + y22 dA = y2 dA + 2y y dA + y2 dA
LA LA LA LA
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dA y
x
C
A
do y = dy
x
O
The first integral on the right side equals the moment of inertia Ix about the x axis.
As y is measured from the centroid axis x, 1A y dA is zero. Hence,
Ix = Ix + Ay 2 = Ix + Ady2 (C.9a)
Similarly,
Iy = Iy + Ax 2 = Iy + Ad2x (C.9b)
The parallel-axis theorem is thus stated as follows: The moment of inertia of an
area with respect to any axis is equal to the moment of inertia around a parallel cen-
troidal axis, plus the product of the area and the square of the distance between the
two axes.
In a like manner, a relationship may be developed connecting the polar
moment of inertia Jo of an area about an arbitrary point O and the polar moment
of inertia Jc about the centroid of the area (Fig. C.4):
Jo = Jc + Ad2o (C.10)
It can be shown that the product of inertia of an area Ixy with respect to any set of
axes is given by the transfer formula
Ixy = Ix y + Ax y = Ix y + Adxdy (C.11)
where Ix y denotes the product of inertia around the centroidal axes. Note that the
parallel-axis theorems, Eqs. (C.9) through (C.11), may be employed only if one of
the two axes involved is a centroidal axis.
For elementary shapes, the integrals appearing in the equations of this and pre-
ceding sections can usually be evaluated easily and the geometric properties of the
area thus obtained (Table C.1). Cross-sectional areas employed in practice can
often be broken into a combination of these simple shapes.
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1h - y2 dy
b
dA = (a)
h
and the coordinates are related by
x = 1h - y2
b
(b)
h
as already found in Example C.1.
a. Then the moment of inertia about the centroidal x axis is (Fig. C.2)
2h/3
1h - y2 dy =
b
1
Ix = y2 dA = y2 36 bh
3
(c)
LA L-h/3 h
Similarly, the moment of inertia with respect to the x axis equals
h
1h - y2 dy =
b 1
Ix = y2 dA = y2 (d) 12 bh
3
LA L0 h
This solution may also be obtained by applying the parallel-axis
theorem:
h 2
Ix = Ix + Ad2y = 1
36 bh
3
+ 12 bh ¢ ≤ = 1
12 bh
3
3
where dy = y is the distance between the x and x axes.
Ixy = 0 +
x y dA
LA
Here x and y are the distances to the centroid of the strip. Referring
to Fig. C.2, we have x = x/2 and y = y. Substituting these together
with Eqs. (a) and (b) into the preceding equation, we have
h
b2
Ixy =
2
1h - y22y dy = 241 b2h2 (e)
L0 2h
The transfer formula now yields the product of inertia with respect to
the centroidal axes:
b2h2 bh b h
Ix y = Ixy - Ax y = - ¢ ≤¢ ≤ = - 1 2 2
72 b h
24 2 3 3
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60 y
10 y
A1 20 20
dy1 = 20
x x
80 dy2 = 20 C C
60
y = 50
A2 30
X
20
10 40 10
(a) (b)
The moments of inertia of a plane area depend not only on the location of the ref-
erence axis but also on the orientation of the axes about the origin. The variation of
these properties with respect to axis location are governed by the parallel-axis the-
orem, as described in Section C.3. We now derive the equations for transformation
of the moments and product of inertia at any point of a plane area.
The area shown in Fig C.6 has the moments and product of inertia Ix, Iy, Ixy
with respect to the x and y axes defined by Eqs. (C.4) and (C.6). It is required to
FIGURE C.6. Rotation of axes. y′
y
A
x dA
x′ x′
y y′
θ
x
O
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determine the moments and product of inertia Ix¿, Iy¿, and Ix¿y¿ about axes x¿, y¿
making an angle with the original x, y axes. The new coordinates of an element
dA can be expressed by projecting x and y onto the rotated axes (Fig. C.6):
x¿ = x cos + y sin , y¿ = y cos - x sin (a)
Then, by definition
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III
RESOLUTIONS WHEN I COME TO BE OLD
* * * * *
Although Swift was a pessimist, a cynic and a misanthrope, these
resolutions contain much wisdom; so much, in fact, that a faithful
adherence to them would save most old men much suffering and
humiliation. I read them first when I was a boy and they produced a
profound impression; now that I am in a position where they fit my
case, I believe them to be good medicine, bitter but wholesome. Swift
must have been bored horribly by many old men, or he must have
observed many old people behaving in a silly fashion to have written
down these rules with such emphasis.
(1, 2) “Crabbed age and youth cannot live together,” said
Shakespeare; the few exceptions do no more than prove the rule.
Many old people suffer because they fear that young people do not
desire their company. The solution is for old people not to allow their
happiness to be dependent on young folks but to have either company
of their own age or intellectual resources which will make them
mentally independent. I have taught young people for forty years, and
although I am very fond of them, I prefer the society of people of my
own age. If I were about to take a trip around the world and could
choose either a young or old companion, I would take the latter.
(3) Good advice for any age, but old persons, owing to bodily
infirmities, are more apt to show these unlovely characteristics.
(4) This advice was never more needed than now.
(5) I would change this, so it would read “Not to fondle children.” A
man with a bushy beard can terrify babes.
(6) “I suppose you have all heard this before, but——” then why tell
it?
(7) Especially of the health, vigour, and activity of younger men.
(8) Swift was himself almost fanatically clean. It is a disgusting
sight to behold old men who are careless of their clothes and
appearance, as though old age gave one the privilege to appear in
public with the remains of the last meal on the coat, waistcoat and
shirt.
(9) Observe the ways of the dog, and learn wisdom. The dog
allows children to pull his tail, and bother him in many ways; not
because he likes it, but because he knows children have no sense. It is
useless to expect that children and young people will think and act like
middle-aged men and women; why be fretful when they are simply
running true to form?
(10) One must remember that slander is of value only as a self-
revelation, never as an accurate description. The recoil of that
particular gun is greater than the discharge.
(11) Every person loves to give advice and no one loves to take it.
The mother says to the child, “Now, Freddy, don’t forget to put your
rubbers on!” to which Freddy replies “Huh!” Then when Freddy is
seventy-six years old, his granddaughter says, “Now, Grandpa, don’t
forget to put your rubbers on!” to which the grandparent replies “Huh!”
It is a good thing not to force one’s opinion on others unless they ask
for it; one’s professions and creed will be judged by one’s life, anyhow.
(12) Ah, that requires the very grace of God. This kind comes only
by prayer and fasting.
(13, 14) Many an old man likes to have others think that he was in
his prime a devil of a fellow. This particular vanity is hard to eradicate.
Even in the moment of Lear’s heartbreaking and shattering grief over
the death of his daughter Cordelia he found time to boast of his former
prowess.
(15) I say it not cynically, but in all seriousness: There is no one
who cannot be successfully flattered, provided the flattery be applied
with some skill. We have at the core such invincible egotism that we
not only listen greedily to flattery, but, what is far worse, we believe it!
(16) An overbearing, domineering, dogmatic manner in
conversation is abominable in persons of any age; when old people
behave in this fashion, and it is not resented by the young, it should
really all the more humiliate the old. For such acquiescence means
that the old man hasn’t any sense, anyhow.
(17) Know thyself. Ulysses showed his wisdom in not trusting
himself. A Yale undergraduate left on his door a placard for the janitor
on which was written, “Call me at 7 o’clock; it is absolutely necessary
that I get up at seven. Make no mistake. Keep knocking until I answer.”
Under this he had written. “Try again at ten.”
IV
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN HUMOUR
* * * * *
My amazement at his pride and joy in salesmanship will be easily
understood by all who read this article. In many shops the customer
has to wait for some one to wait upon him. And when finally some clerk
does deign to notice you, you are made to feel as if you were
interrupting him. Either he is absorbed in profound thought in which he
hates to be disturbed or he is skylarking with a girl clerk and you feel
like apologising for thrusting yourself into such intimacy.
He displays no interest either in you or in the goods he is paid to
sell. Yet possibly that very clerk who is now so apathetic began his
career with hope and enthusiasm. The daily grind was too much for
him; the novelty wore off; his only pleasures were found outside of
working hours. He became a mechanical, not an inspired, salesman.
After being mechanical, he became incompetent; then he saw younger
clerks who had more zest in their work, promoted over him. He
became sour and nourished a grievance. That was the last stage. His
usefulness was over.
I have observed this melancholy decline in the lives of so many
men in so many occupations that I have come to the conclusion that
the surest road to failure is to do things mechanically. There is, for
example, no greater literature in the world than the Bible and no more
exciting subject than religion. Yet I have heard many ministers of the
gospel read the Bible in their churches with no interest and no
emphasis, whereas they ought to read it as if they had just received it
by wireless from Almighty God. I have heard hundreds of sermons
preached mechanically, with no more appeal than if the speaker were
a parrot. There are many teachers in schools and colleges who seem
duller than the dullest of their pupils; they go through the motions of
teaching, but they are as impersonal as a telephone.
* * * * *
In reading that remarkable book, The Americanization of Edward
Bok, I was impressed by what he said of competition in business.
Beginning as a very young man in a certain occupation, he had
expected to encounter the severest competition. As a matter of fact, he
met no competition at all, and found that success was the easiest thing
in the world, if one provided the conditions necessary for it.
He worked along with a number of other young men in the
business. He was the only one who ever got to the place ahead of
time. At the noon hour at lunch the other youngsters never on a single
occasion mentioned the business in which they were engaged. They
talked of their girls, or of athletic sports, or of various dissipations. He
was the only man who ever remained after business hours, and he
was convinced that he was the only one who ever occupied his mind
with the business during his evenings.
He rose above the others with consummate ease, and for two
obvious reasons: First, he made himself indispensable; second, he
found his chief pleasure in his work, not in the dissipations outside of it.
It is simple enough for any one to be attracted by the novelty of a
new job. The real difficulty is to keep up that initial enthusiasm every
day of one’s life, to go to work every morning with zest and excitement.
I believe that a man should live every day as if that day were his first
and his last day on earth.
Every person needs some relaxation, some recreation; but a man’s
chief happiness should not lie outside his daily work, but in it. The chief
difference between the happiness of childhood and the happiness of
maturity is that the child’s happiness is dependent on something
different from the daily routine—a picnic, an excursion, a break of
some kind. But to the right sort of men and women happiness is found
in the routine itself, not in departures from it. Instead of hoping for a
change, one hopes there will be no change, that one will have
sufficient health to continue in one’s chosen occupation. The child has
pleasures; the man has happiness. But unfortunately some men
remain children all their lives.
VI
AN INSPIRING CEMETERY
The last time I was in Florence I bent over his grave and with
deliberate emphasis I whispered “Alas!” I do not know whether he
heard me or not.
Robert and Elizabeth Browning made the poet’s later years as
happy as was possible for one of his temperament; they secured a
villa for him, furnished it, hired servants and did what they could. He
was wildly irascible, and if he did not like a meal that was served, he
grabbed the table-cloth, and twitched all the food and dishes on to
the floor. All his life he was a fighting man, which makes the beautiful
Farewell he wrote somewhat incongruous.
In addition to the three great English poets who are buried in this
cemetery, two famous Americans lie there, Richard Hildreth and
Theodore Parker. When I was an undergraduate, I asked Prof. W. G.
Sumner what was the best History of the United States that had ever
been written; he answered gruffly and without a word of qualification,
“Hildreth’s!” Accordingly, I read every word of the six volumes. Many
years later I had the unique pleasure of telling Sumner something he
had not known; I told him I had done homage at Hildreth’s grave in
Florence, and he was surprised to learn that the historian was buried
there. If any one believes that the contemporary custom of
“debunking” historical characters is new, he should read Hildreth’s
Preface to his History.
In the attack just quoted the most interesting thing to the modern
reader is that precisely the same objections were made to the game
as we hear today.
In the robust days of Queen Bess football was regarded as low
and vulgar; it received the denunciation of the Church and the more
potent frown of fashionable society. Today at a great university
match prominent clergymen are seen even on the sidelines; the
bleachers bloom with lovely women, and in a conspicuous place
stands the President of the United States.
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