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Tensile Strut-Testing Machines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. H. Chilver
A. H. Chilver*
Affiliation:
Engineering Department, Cambridge University
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Extract

In a recent note, Fessler has suggested that some of the practical problems of strut testing can be overcome by using a “tensile strut-testing machine”. As Fessler points out, slender struts are frequently tested with pinned ends, either in the form of knife-edges or ball-ends.

Type
Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 577 , January 1959 , pp. 57 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959

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References

1.Fessler, H. (1958). A Tensile Strut Testing Machine. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Vol. 62, July 1958.Google Scholar
2.Chilver, A. H. (1955). The Instability of Testing Machines. Proc. Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 169, No. 25, 1955.CrossRefGoogle Scholar