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There is supposed to have been a book review by Dorothy Parker which started off ‘This book tells me more than I care to know about the Principles of Accountancy’. And indeed I dare say that many of us are apt to come to the conclusion that the way in which things behave in shear might, after all, be left to the experts. Tension and compression we feel we can cope with, but when it comes to shear we think we can detect a tendency for the mind to boggle.
Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace and strife, In the thread of human life. Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering
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Gordon, J.E. (1978). The mysteries of shear and torsion — or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie. In: Structures or Why things don’t fall down . Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9074-3_12
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