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Letter from Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross-section. Parts I, II and III' by B G Neal to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/71/223

Date: 09 July 1949

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He will be retuning home to Helensburgh so will be unable to refer the the notes he made when he read the paper. The authors have dealt with the points he made in a satisfactory manner.

[All parts combined and published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 1 July 1949.

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RR/71/223
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09 July 1949
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Gilbert Cook, Letter from Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross-section. Parts I, II and III' by B G Neal to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 09 July 1949, RR/71/223, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_223/letter-from-gilbert-cook-on-a-paper-the-lateral-instability-of-yielded-mild-steel-beams-of-rectangular-cross-section-parts-i-ii-and-iii-by-b-g-neal-to-d-c-martin-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 January 2025

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