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Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The plastic theory of bending of mild steel beams with particular reference to the effect of shear forces' by Michael Rex Horne

Reference number: RR/73/285

Date: 14 December 1950

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Sectional committee: Engineering

Paper reference code: A227

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings with Bleaney's remarks: 'The paper is an interesting and important contribution to the theory of the plastic bending beams...' and describes the 'chief criticism' of the paper being 'the excessive condensation of the mathematical analysis'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/73/285
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14 December 1950
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Gilbert Cook, Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The plastic theory of bending of mild steel beams with particular reference to the effect of shear forces' by Michael Rex Horne, 14 December 1950, RR/73/285, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_285/referees-report-by-gilbert-cook-on-a-paper-the-plastic-theory-of-bending-of-mild-steel-beams-with-particular-reference-to-the-effect-of-shear-forces-by-michael-rex-horne, accessed on 14 March 2026

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