 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1829 - 584 pages
...introduced as a measure to express the clastic force of any substance. The Modulus of elasticity of a substance is a column of the same substance, capable...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. t Essay on Cast Iron, p. 'J0'9, etc. 1 jf isversely, or result of exi 'lent by such... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1831 - 596 pages
...introduced as a measure to express the elastic force of any substance. The Modulus of elasticity of • substance is a column of the same substance, capable...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. t Essay on Cast Iron, p. 269, etc. axis, but parallel to it, the extension or compression... | |
 | Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1831 - 548 pages
...introduced as a measure to express the plastic force of any substance. The Modulus of elasticity of a substance is a column of the same substance, capable...the weight causing a certain degree of compression, aa the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. t Essay on Cast Iron, p. '269, etc.... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Mathematics - 1834 - 484 pages
...and proportionally by proportional forces. 6. DBF. The modulus of the elasticity of any substance ia column of the same substance, capable of producing...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. The modulus of elasticity is the measure of the elastic force of any substance. A practical... | |
 | Thomas Young - Egypt - 1855 - 804 pages
...compressed in equal degrees by equal forces, and proportionally by proportional forces. 2. DEFINITION. The modulus of the elasticity of any substance is...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. 3. THEOREM. When a force is applied to an elastic column, of a rectangular prismatic... | |
 | 1860 - 902 pages
...XL.—TBIBO SIBIIS.—IS'u. 5.—NOVEMBER, I860. 29 Modulus of Elasticity. The Modulus or Co-efficient of the Elasticity of any substance, is a column of...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length ; or it is the measure of the elastic reaction or force of any substance. To ascertain... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...and compressed in equal degrees by equal forces, and proportionally by proportional forces. 6. DEF. The modulus of the elasticity of any substance is...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. The modulus of elasticity is the measure of the elastic force of any substance. A practical... | |
 | Gabriel Valentin - Blood - 1867 - 666 pages
...London, 1807. 4. p. 46) The Modulus of the Elasticity of imy Substance is a Oolnmn of the same SubsU capable of producing a pressure on its base, which is to the weight causing a tert degree of compression, äs the length of the Substance is to the diminution o! length. dasjenige... | |
 | Mechanical engineering - 1874 - 1186 pages
...engines used, see article PDJIPB AND PUMPING, as also ENGIXKS, in this Dictionary. MINT. See Coiuraa. MODULUS. The modulus of the elasticity of any substance...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. The modulus of elasticity is the measure of the elastic force of any substance. A practical... | |
 | Henry Percy Smith - English language - 1883 - 542 pages
...requires the continued action of those forces to keep it in that state of strain. The Modulus of E. of any substance is a column of the same substance...as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. The modulus of E. is frequently given in pounds per square inch of the cross-section... | |
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The modulus of the elasticity of any substance is a column of the same substance, capable of producing a pressure on its base which is to the weight causing a certain degree of compression, as the length of the substance is to the diminution of its length. 
