Applied Strength of Materials

by Alfred Jensen

This text covers the basics of the usual college course in Strength of Materials without, however, the need for calculus. the simplified approach explains via use of established physical relationships and action and reaction. The student will gain the knowledge needed to design machine parts, structural members and connections.

420 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1982

About the author

Alfred Jensen (1903-1981) was a painter. Alfred Jensen studied painting at the San Diego Fine Arts School and in Munich under Hans Hofmann.

After moving to the United States in 1934, his patron Saidie Alder May encouraged him to pursue his interest in color theory and pattern. Jensen's intricately organized diagrams reflect his distinctive conceptual approach, begun in the late 1950s when he started to refine his wide-ranging studies of systems and philosophies—from theories of color and light, mathematics, and the Mayan calendar, to scientific formulations—into multicolored checkerboards. He used mathematical systems to construct two-dimensional grid paintings and demonstrate color theories, but the work itself is metaphorical, referencing pre-Colombian and Asian cultures, textiles, and divination.