Paper, 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A [Ashley] Carus-Wilson

Description

Carus-Wilson writes: 'In a paper read before the Royal Society on June 16, 1881, Professor G H Darwin stated: “It is difficult to conceive any mode in which an elastic solid can rupture except by shearing, and hence it appears that the greatest shearing stress is a proper measure of the tendency to break” (‘Phil. Trans.,’ 1882, p. 99).'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes one page of diagrams and two photographs of ruptured steel.

Subject: Physics / Metallurgy

Received 10 March 1890. Read 27 March 1890. Communicated by George Howard Darwin.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress'.

Reference number

PP/17/17

Earliest possible date

1890

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

29 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram
Photograph