Efforts at modelling practical problems in foundation analysis using a strength-of-materials approach have developed the concept of the conical bar or beam as a tool. Such models can be used to model a foundation in a dynamic soil-structure interaction analysis with a variation of the properties wit[...]

- Choice 1988 Outstanding Academic Book- Named one of the Best Business Books of 1988 by USA TodayA veteran reporter of American labor analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. John Hoerr's account of these events stretches from the industrywide barganing failu[...]