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About this product: With the retirement of Helen Cox (author of four previous editions), the baton has been passed to Susan Newfield. Susan and her team remain loyal to the previous books by focusing on the "nursing model" over the "medical model." This edition carries on the great features of the previous while updating and improving the content. "The Gordon's Functional Health Patterns" organizes the framework, helping students learn and apply a holistic approach in planning care.
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About this product: "An authoritative text for empirical stress-based (S-N)methods of fatigue analysis. Also covers impact, static failure, hertz contact, processing effects on material strength, and testing procedures. Does not cover strain-based fatigue analysis or fracture-mechanics. Even so, this classic book remains extremely useful for those who design or evaluate structures (e.g. using FEA results). Well-written presentation with many real-world examples makes self-study enjoyable and rewarding."
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