THEORY OF

ELASTIC STABILITY
Second Edition

Stephen P. Timoshenko
James M. Gere

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Mineola, New York
 Copyright
Copyright O 1961 by Stephen P. Timoshenko and James M. Gere.
Copyright O renewed 1989 by James M. Gere.
All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2009, is an unabridged republication of
the second edition of the work, originally published by the McGraw-Hill Book
Company, Inc., New York and London, in 1961.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData

Timoshenko, Stephen, 1878-1972.
Theory of elastic stability / Stephen P. Timoshenko, James M. Gere. - Dover
ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill Book, 1961.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-47207-2
ISBN-10: 0-486-47207-8
1. Elasticity. 2. Strain and stresses. I. Gere, James M. 11. Title.

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