Title: Graphic statics
Description: PREFACE
This text represents the development of notes during a period of fifteen years in a course offered to engineering students at Purdue University.
Though intended primarily for the undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, it offers certain features that should be of value also to students in other departments. For students in civil engineering, the chapter on Trusses and Bents should be of use as an introduction to the graphical analysis of structures.
This chapter is designed to be of value also in instruction in aeronautical design. To students in machine design, the chapters on Cranes and Machines should be helpful.
The text assumes a general knowledge of statics. A special feature, distinguishing this text from other works on graphic statics, is the grouping in one volume of the three important topics—Trusses and Bents, Cranes, and Machines. Another feature is the liberal supply of illustrated examples which have been solved in detail and fully explained. Numerous problems have been furnished for solution by the student. An- swers have been given for checking the solutions.
Instructors preferring problems without answers may make changes in the data given.
The authors wish to express their thanks to R. G. Dukes, Dean of the Graduate School and Head of the Department of Applied Mechanics at Purdue University, for permission to use the available material of the department and to their colleague, A. P. Poorman, Professor of Applied Mechanics at Purdue University, for his thorough reading of the manuscript and suggestions as to form and content.
SEIBERT FAIRMAN.
Chester S. Cutshall
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, 
January, 1932.
Subjects: Graphic statics, Engineering