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Bars (Engineering)

Here are entered theoretical and technical works on rods and bars as members of engineering structures. Works on the mathematical theories of elasticity in rods are entered under Elastic rods and wires.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Elastic rods and wires
• Structural frames

• Girders
• Reinforcing bars
• Springs (Mechanism)
• Steel bars

• Rods

• Properties of Composite Sections for Bridges and Buildings (ca. 1963), by Bethlehem Steel Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Design in Structural Steel (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by John E. Lothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ironworkers Fabrication Manual: Presenting Practical Illustrations, Methods and Procedures for the Fabrication of Structural Steel and Ornamental Metal Work (St. Louis: International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, c1957), by Joseph J. Kronstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torsion Analysis of Rolled Steel Sections (New York: Bethlehem Steel Corp., 1963), by Conrad P. Heins and P. A. Seaburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• CRSI Recommended Practice for Placing Reinforcing Bars (Chicago; Concrete Reinforcing Stell Institute, 1959), by Raymond C. Reese (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mechanical Springs (first edition; Cleveland: Penton Pub. Co., 1944), by A. M. Wahl (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope (New York: R. L. Stillson Co., c1921), by John Kimberly Mumford (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Plastic Analysis of Structures (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), by Philip Gibson Hodge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Structural Models for Architectural and Engineering Education (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963), by Peter Jan Pahl and Keto Soosaar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Frame Constants: Beam Factors and Moment Coefficients for Members of Variable Section (c1947), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft, by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• The Airliner Cabin Environment: Air Quality and Safety (1986), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: A Proceedings (1995), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Flight-Determined Aerodynamic Properties of a Jet-Augmented, Auxiliary-Flap, Direct-Lift-Control System Including Correlation With Wind-Tunnel Results (NASA Technical Note D-5128, corrected copy; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969), by L. Stewart Rolls, Anthony M. Cook, and Robert C. Innis
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Interaction and Breakdown Characteristics of Slender-Wing Vortices at Subsonic, Transonic, and Supersonic Speeds (NASA Technical Paper 3114; 1991), by Gary E. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles (OTA-SET-507; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Handbook of Frame Constants: Beam Factors and Moment Coefficients for Members of Variable Section (c1947), by Portland Cement Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bevel Angles for Three Dimensional Connections (c1948), by Frank L. Martindale (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Plank-And-Beam Framing for Residential Buildings (c2003), by American Wood Council (PDF at awc.org)

• Full Length Roof Framer (Palo Alto, CA: Printed by the Daily Palo Alto Times, c1917), by A. F. Riechers
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mediaeval Church Vaulting (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by Clarence Ward (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Scaffolding: A Treatise on the Design and Erection of Scaffolds, Gantries, and Stagings, With an Account of the Appliances Used in Connection Therewith, For the Use of Contractors, Builders, Clerks of Works, Etc.; With a Chapter on the Legal Aspect of the Question (London: B. T. Batsford, 1904), by A. G. H. Thatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scaffolding: A Treatise on the Design and Erection of Scaffolds, Gantries, and Stagings, With an Account of the Appliances Used in Connection Therewith, For the Use of Contractors, Builders, Clerks of Works, Etc.; With a Chapter on the Legal Aspect of the Question (second edition; London: B. T. Batsford, 1907), by A. G. H. Thatcher (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Wichert Truss (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1932), by D. B. Steinman (page images at HathiTrust)