Principles of mechanics of solids and fluids

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Flight without formula : simple discussions on the mechanics of the aeroplane /

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Preston's treatise on book-keeping: or, Arbitrary rules made plain: in two parts ... The first part being designed for the use of mechanics of all classes; the second ... showing the method of keeping accounts by double entry ...

Includes also his The Book-keeper's diploma; or a full and lucid treatise on the equation of payments, N.Y., 1937. Also Preston's estimates of boxes, and casks ...

A letter to the mechanics of Boston, respecting the formation of a city temperance society, from a committee of the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance.

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The mechanics of hoisting machinery, including accumulators, excavators, and pile-drivers; a text-book for technical schools and a guide for practical engineers,

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Mechanics of internal work (or work of deformation) in elastic bodies and systems in equilibrium, including the method of least work,

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Magneto-fluid-mechanics of a viscous, electrically conducting fluid contained within two finite, concentric, rotating cylinders in the presence of a magnetic field,

"This research was supported by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation under Contract no.6140-20 P.O.7S4899-R."

The mechanics of the digestive tract /

Includes indexes.

Organism and environment as illustrated by the physiology of breathing,

The regulation of breathing.--The readjustments of regulation in acclimatisation and disease.--Regulation of the environment, internal and external.--Organic regulation as the essence of life. Inadequacy of mechanistic and vitalistic conceptions.

The mechanics of the digestive tract; an introduction to gastroenterology,

Bibliography: p. 379-428.

The book of illustrious mechanics, of Europe and America.

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Advanced mechanics of materials.

Includes bibliographies.

Recent development in the mechanics of superplasticity and its applications

This paper reviews the recent developments in the mechanics of superplasticity and its applications in industrial practice. After introducing the phenomena of superplasticity, the basic experiments for determining material deformation behavior and related parameters, and constructing superplastic constitutive equations, are reviewed. Finite element related formulations and techniques for simulating superplastic forming are discussed, together with some practical applications. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Mechanics of raceway hysteresis in a packed bed

When a gas is introduced at high velocity through a nozzle into a packed bed, it creates a raceway in the packed bed. It has been found that the raceway size is larger when it is formed by decreasing the gas velocity from its highest value than when it is formed by increasing the gas velocity. This phenomenon is known as raceway hysteresis. A hypothesis has been oroposed to explain the hysteresis phenomenon based on a force-balance approach which includes frictional, bed-weight, and pressure forces. According to this hypothesis, the frictional force acts in different directions when the raceway is expanding and contracting. In this article, the entire packed bed has been divided into radial and Cartesian co-ordinate systems, and the forces acting on the raceway have been solved analytically for a simplified one-dimensional case. Based on the force-balance approach, a general equation has been obtained to predict the diameter of the raceway for increasing And decreasing velocities. A reasonable agreement has been found between the theoretical predictions and experimental observations. The model has also been compared with published experimental and plant data. The hysteresis mechanism in the packed beds can be described reasonably by taking into consideration the direction of frictional forces for the increasing- and decreasin-velocity cases. The effects of the particleshape factor and void fraction on the raceway hysteresis are examined.

Disorders of breathing and continence have a stronger association with back pain than obesity and physical activity

Although obesity and physical activity have been argued to predict back pain, these factors are also related to incontinence and breathing difficulties. Breathing and continence mechanisms may interfere with the physiology of spinal control, and may provide a link to back pain. The aim of this study was to establish the association between back pain and disorders of continence and respiration in women. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of self-report, postal survey data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. We used multinomial logistic regression to model four levels of back pain in relation to both the traditional risk factors of body mass index and activity level, and the potential risk factors of incontinence, breathing difficulties, and allergy. A total of 38 050 women were included from three age-cohorts. When incontinence and breathing difficulties were considered, obesity and physical activity were not consistently associated with back pain. In contrast, odds ratios (OR) for often having back pain were higher for women often having incontinence compared to women without incontinence (OR were 2.5, 2.3 and 2.3 for young, mid-age! and older women, respectively). Similarly, mid-aged and older women had higher odds of having back pain often when they experienced breathing difficulties often compared to women with no breathing problems (OR of 2.0 and 1.9, respectively). Unlike obesity and physical activity, disorders of continence and respiration were strongly related to frequent back pain. This relationship may be explained by physiological limitations of co-ordination of postural, respiratory and continence functions of trunk muscles.