Theory of Plates and Shells

PROF. TIMOSHENKO is one of the outstanding exponents of the mathematical theory of elasticity and of the application of this theory to a variety of practical problems. He has written on these topics for thirty years, and his books have become indispensable to every engineer who has to apply mathematical principles and methods to such problems. Theory of Plates and Shells By Prof. S. Timoshenko. (Engineering Societies Monographs.) Pp. xii + 492. (New York and London: McGraw–Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 42s.