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Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'The distribution of stress in the neighbourhood of a crack in an elastic solid' by Ian Naismith Sneddon

Reference number: RR/69/297

Date: 08 November 1945

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Some terms should be explained more explicitly in the paper. The presentation is competent and satisfactory.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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RR/69/297
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08 November 1945
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1 page
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Richard Vynne Southwell, Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'The distribution of stress in the neighbourhood of a crack in an elastic solid' by Ian Naismith Sneddon, 08 November 1945, RR/69/297, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_297/referees-report-by-richard-vynne-southwell-on-a-paper-the-distribution-of-stress-in-the-neighbourhood-of-a-crack-in-an-elastic-solid-by-ian-naismith-sneddon, accessed on 14 December 2025

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