X-Nico

unusual facts about Strength of materials


Venetian Arsenal

As a result of his interactions with the Arsenal, Galileo published a book later in his life addressing a new field of modern science, that concerned with the strength and resistance of materials.


Eglin steel

Eglin steel (ES-1) is a high-strength, high-performance, low-alloy, low-cost steel, developed for new generation of bunker buster type bombs, e.g. the Massive Ordnance Penetrator and the improved version of the GBU-28 bomb known as EGBU-28.


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George Irwin

George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998), American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials

Kazimierz Hajda

He was then employed as a lecturer and senior research assistant at the Department of Mechanics and Strength of Materials of the Warsaw University of Technology.