Open AccessThe flexure of thick circular plates
Publication year - 1926
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1926.0129
Subject(s) - deflexion , explosive material , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , base (topology) , structural engineering , materials science , geometry , optics , physics , engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , chemistry , finite element method , telecommunications , organic chemistry
The investigation undertaken in this paper arose out of a suggestion that the deflexion of a circular steel plate, firmly held at the edge, might be used as a measure of high explosive pressures. The plate would be securely screwed into, and form the base of, a cylindrical closed vessel of the usual type, and the measurement made would be that of the normal central deflexion of its external flat surface. These deflexions, which are, of course, necessarily small, can be suitably magnified by optical means, and thus a pressure-time curve of the explosion would be obtained in the usual way.