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Bernard Parker Haigh

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Citizenship
  
UK

Children
  
Ian

Alma mater
  
University of Glasgow

Spouse
  
Mildred May Cole

Name
  
Bernard Haigh

Fields
  
Applied mechanics

Bernard Parker Haigh
Born
  
8 July 1884 Edinburgh, Scotland (
1884-07-08
)

Institutions
  
University of Glasgow, Royal Naval College

Thesis
  
Alternating stress testing machine with record of researches carried out (1915)

Known for
  
Haigh diagram, Haigh-Westergaard stress space, Beltrami-Haigh yield criterion

Died
  
January 18, 1941, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Institution
  
University of Glasgow, Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Bernard Parker Haigh, MBE (8 July 1884 - 18 January 1941) was a professor of applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Haigh is known for his contributions in the fields of metal fatigue, welding and theory of plasticity. He is particularly known for Haigh diagram.

In 1913 Haigh became a lecturer in applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College.

Notable publications

  • A new machine for alternating load tests (1912)
  • Report on Alternating Stress Tests of a Sample of Mild Steel received from the British Association Stress Committee (1916)
  • Experiments on the fatigue of brasses (1917)
  • Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit (1920)
  • Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit (1922)
  • Stresses in Bridges (1924)
  • Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue (1928)
  • Electric welding as an integral part of structural design (1939)

    • References

    Bernard Parker Haigh Wikipedia
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