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Referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the stresses induced by flexure in a deep rectangular beam' by D B Smith and Richard Vynne Southwell

Reference number: RR/51/73

Date: May 1933

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Sectional Committee: Engineering Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant. Outlines some misapprehensions in the theories and calcualtions made by the authors in detail.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 23 May 1933.

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RR/51/73
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May 1933
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Louis Napoleon George Filon, Referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the stresses induced by flexure in a deep rectangular beam' by D B Smith and Richard Vynne Southwell, May 1933, RR/51/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_51_73/referees-report-by-louis-napoleon-george-filon-on-a-paper-on-the-stresses-induced-by-flexure-in-a-deep-rectangular-beam-by-d-b-smith-and-richard-vynne-southwell, accessed on 16 January 2025

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