SZ/OEMU/32/1/7-8 - A critical study of the Hopkinson pressure bar, 30/10/43

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/32/1/7-8

Level of description

Item

Title

A critical study of the Hopkinson pressure bar, 30/10/43

Date/s

1943

Quantity & Format

44 leaves

Corporate name

Great Britain. Ministry of Home Security. Research and Experiments Department.

Subject

Pressure -- Measurement

Creator

Davies, R. M.

Creator

Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

R.C. 397

This report describes an electrical method for measuring the relation between pressure and time in experiments on high pressures of short duration. The second part of the report discusses theoretically the propagation of extensional stress waves and pulses in a bar.

Report by R.M. Davies and the Ministry of Home Security.

Two copies.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/32 - [OEMU. CDRC - Miscellaneous papers]
    - SZ/OEMU/32/1 - [OEMU. CDRC - Miscellaneous papers, 1940-1946]
      - SZ/OEMU/32/1/7-8 - A critical study of the Hopkinson pressure bar, 30/10/43

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