 | 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...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 k JlU'comes con... | |
 | 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...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 will then... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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...the substance is to the diminution of its length. 3. THEOREM. When a force is applied to an elastic column, of a rectangular prismatic form, in a direction... | |
 | 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...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 the Extension... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Elasticity - 1886 - 970 pages
...second relates to that constant of elasticity which has since been named Young's modulus. It runs thus : The modulus of the elasticity of any substance is...the substance is to the diminution of its length. It will be seen that the modulus as thus defined by Young does not agree with what we now term Young's... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Mechanical engineering - 1888 - 702 pages
...concentrated forces, then, being added together, will amount exactly to the original available force. Modulus. — The modulus of the elasticity of any...as the length of the substance is to the diminution in its length. Momentum. — Momentum, in mechanics, is the same as impetus or quantity of motion,... | |
 | Stephen Roper - Fire engines - 1889 - 422 pages
...physical elements, force, motion, and time, with their combinations, constituting power, space, and work. Modulus. — The modulus of the elasticity of any...the substance is to the diminution of its length. Momentum. — Momentum, in mechanics, is the same as impetus or quantity of motion, and is generally... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1890 - 990 pages
...material is measure of its elastic reaction or force, and is height of a column of the material, pressing on its base, which is to the weight causing a certain degree of compression as length of material is to the diminution of its length. It is computed by this analogy : As extension... | |
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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. 
