On the construction of artillery and other vessels to resist great internal pressure

Longridge, J A

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“…Studies on the dynamic fracture of metals were largely concerned with the explosion of cannons [25,132] and steam boilers [133,134]. These issues were recognised at the time as being related [135]. From [109] In the preface to his 1817 book, Peter Barlow reviewed the state of knowledge of the strength of materials:…”

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Highways and Byways in the History of High Rate Mechanical Testing

Walley

2020

J. dynamic behavior mater.

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Up until the Industrial Revolution, the dynamic mechanical properties of materials were only of importance in warfare, particularly after the powder-driven gun was invented. With the invention of the steam engine, the explosion of steam boilers (which is similar to the explosion of cannon) became a concern. When railways began to be built, the lack of knowledge of the dynamic properties of the iron alloys used in rails and railway bridges was understood to be a problem, but no way of measuring them was devised until the end of the nineteenth century. Ingenious mechanical (and later electromechanical) methods of recording signals onto rotating drums or moving smoked glass plates began to be developed from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards. Optical/photographic methods of recording information from dynamic experiments date from the 1890s. The rod-on-anvil technique (later named after Taylor) was developed in France at the beginning of the twentieth century but not mathematically analysed until the 1940s. The Hopkinson pressure bar was invented just before the start of the First World War and found to be useful in improving British artillery shells. It was then forgotten about until the Second World War when a two-bar version was developed for measuring the dynamic properties of soft materials such as explosives and polyethylene. As the story of high rate mechanical testing from about 1950 onwards is quite well known to the high rate testing community, this date is taken as the end point of this article. Keywords Isaac Newton • Ballistics • Taylor impact • Hopkinson bar • Spall • Adiabatic shear band Note on Imperial Units of Measurement Some quotes in this article are taken from British and American sources where Imperial Units of length and weight were used. For those unfamiliar with these units, the (approximate) conversion factors to the metric system are as follows: 1 in. is 25 mm; 1 ft. (= 12 in.) is 305 mm; 1 lb (abbreviation lb.) is 0.45 kg; 1 (British) ton (= 2240 lbs) is 1008 kg).

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Highways and Byways in the History of High Rate Mechanical Testing

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2020

J. dynamic behavior mater.

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On the construction of artillery and other vessels to resist great internal pressure

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