| Reference number | PP/17/17 |
| Previous numbers | PP/49/19 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A [Ashley] Carus-Wilson |
| Creator | Carus-Wilson; Charles Ashley (1860-1942); British electrical engineer |
| Date | 1890 |
| 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'. |
| Extent | 29p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Diagram |
| Photograph |
| Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0090 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8198 | Darwin; Sir; George Howard (1845 - 1912); mathematician and geophysicist | 1845 - 1912 |