Structural Engineering: Stresses, Graphical Statics, and Masonry

AMERICAN authors have been very active of late years in the production of comprehensive treatises on various aspects of structural theory and design. Prof. Swain, who is professor of civil engineering in Harvard University, is a leading exponent of this subject, and the present volume is the third in his ambitiously planned series of five on structural engineering. The previous two volumes dealt mainly with materials, but this third concentrates on the theories of statically determinate framed structures, of earth pressure, and of masonry structures.Structural Engineering: Stresses, Graphical Statics, and Masonry.By G. F. Swain. Pp. x + 525. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1927.) 25s. net.