Editing Solid mechanics (section)

==Timeline==
*1452–1519 [[Leonardo da Vinci]] made many contributions<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius |url=https://qeprize.org/news/leonardo-da-vinci |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering |language=en}}</ref> 
*1638: [[Galileo Galilei]] published the book "[[Two New Sciences]]" in which he examined the failure of simple structures
[[File:Galileo Galilei by Ottavio Leoni Marucelliana (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright| [[Galileo Galilei]] published the book "[[Two New Sciences]]" in which he examined the failure of simple structures]]
*1660: [[Hooke's law]] by [[Robert Hooke]]
*1687: [[Isaac Newton]] published "[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]" which contains [[Newton's laws of motion]]
[[File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|right|thumb|upright| [[Isaac Newton]] published "[[Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]" which contains the [[Newton's laws of motion]]]]
*1750: [[Euler–Bernoulli beam equation]]
*1700–1782: [[Daniel Bernoulli]] introduced the principle of [[virtual work]]
*1707–1783: [[Leonhard Euler]] developed the theory of [[buckling]] of columns
[[File:Leonhard Euler 2.jpg|thumb|upright| [[Leonhard Euler]] developed the theory of [[buckling]] of columns]]
*1826: [[Claude-Louis Navier]] published a treatise on the elastic behaviors of structures
*1873: [[Carlo Alberto Castigliano]] presented his dissertation "Intorno ai sistemi elastici", which contains [[Castigliano's method|his theorem]] for computing displacement as partial derivative of the strain energy. This theorem includes the method of ''least work'' as a special case
*1874: [[Otto Mohr]] formalized the idea of a statically indeterminate structure.
*1922: [[Stephen Timoshenko|Timoshenko]] corrects the [[Euler–Bernoulli beam theory|Euler–Bernoulli beam equation]]
*1936: [[Hardy Cross]]' publication of the moment distribution method, an important innovation in the design of continuous frames.
*1941: [[Alexander Hrennikoff]] solved the discretization of plane elasticity problems using a lattice framework
*1942: [[Richard Courant|R. Courant]] divided a domain into finite subregions
*1956: J. Turner, R. W. Clough, H. C. Martin, and L. J. Topp's paper on the "Stiffness and Deflection of Complex Structures" introduces the name "finite-element method" and is widely recognized as the first comprehensive treatment of the method as it is known today