The Scientific Papers of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

In this first volume, Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers examine the mechanics of solids.

G. K. Batchelor (Edited by)

9780521159029, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

632 pages
24.4 x 17 x 3.2 cm, 0.99 kg

Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975) was a physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest physical scientists of the twentieth century. Across these four volumes, published between the years 1958 and 1971, Batchelor has collected together almost 200 of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor's papers. The papers of the first three volumes are grouped approximately by subject, with Volume IV collating a number of miscellaneous papers on the mechanics of fluids. Together, these volumes allow a thorough exploration of the breadth and diversity of Sir Taylor's interests within the field of fluid dynamics. At the end of Volume IV, Batchelor provides the reader with both a chronological list of the papers presented across all four volumes, and a list of Sir Geoffrey Taylor's other published articles, completing this truly invaluable research and reference work.

1. The use of soap films in solving torsion problems with A. A. Griffith
2. The problem of flexure and its solution by the soapfilm method with A. A. Griffith
3. The application of soap films to the determination of the torsion and flexture of hollow shafts with A. A. Griffith
4. A relation between Bertrand's and Kelvin's theorems on impulses
5. The distortion of an aluminium crystal during a tensile test with C. F. Elam
6. The heat developed during plastic extension of metals with W. S. Farren
7. The plastic extension and fracture of aluminium crystals with C. F. Elam
8. Notes on the 'Navier Effect'
9. The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression, I with W. S. Farren
10. The distortion of iron crystals with C. F. Elam
11. The distortion of single crystals of metals
12. The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression, II: distortion by double slipping and changes in orientation of crystal axes during compression
13. The distortion of crystals of aluminium under compression, III
measurements of stress
14. The deformation of crystals of ?-brass
15. Resistance to shear in metal crystals
16. The plastic distortion of metals with H. Quinney
17. The distortion of wires on passing through a draw-plate with H. Quinney
18. The buckling load for a rectangular plate with four clamped edges
19. The latent energy remaining in a metal after cold working with H. Quinney
20. Faults in a material which yields to shear stress while retaining its volume elasticity
21. The mechanism of plastic deformation of crystals, I: theoretical
22. The mechanism of plastic deformation of crystals, II: comparison with observation
23. The strength of rock salt
24. A theory of the plasticity of crystals
25. Lattice distortion and latent heat of cold work in copper
26. The emission of the latent energy due to previous cold working when a metal is heated with H. Quinney
27. Plastic strain in metals
28. Analysis of plastic strain in a cubic crystal
29. Stress systems in aeolotropic plates, I with A. E. Green
30. Propagation of earth waves from an explosion
31. Calculation of stress distribution in an autofrettaged tube from measurements of stress rings
32. The plastic wave in a wire extended by an impact load
33. The mechanical properties of cordite during impact stressing with R. M. Davies
34. the distortion under pressure of an elliptic diaphragm which clamped along its edge
35. Stress systems in aeolotropic plates, III with A. E. Green
36. The testing of materials at high rates of loading
37. A connection between the criterion of yield and the strain ration relationship in plastic solids
38. The formation and enlargement of a circular hole in a thin plastic sheet
39. The use of flat-ended projectiles for determining dynamic yields stress, I: theoretical considerations
40. Distribution of stress when a spherical compression pulse is reflected at a free surface
41. Strains in crystalline aggregates.

Subject Areas: Applied mathematics [PBW]