Bernard Haigh

Bernard Parker Haigh, MBE[1] (8 July 1884[2][3] - 18 January 1941[4][5]) was a Scottish mechanical engineer. Haigh was educated at Allan Glen's School[6] and the University of Glasgow He served as professor of applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

Bernard Parker Haigh
Professor Bernard Parker Haigh
Born(1884-07-08)8 July 1884
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died18 January 1941(1941-01-18) (aged 56)
Greenwich, London, England
NationalityScottish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Known forHaigh diagram, Haigh-Westergaard stress space, Beltrami-Haigh yield criterion
Spouse(s)Mildred May Cole
Children1
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mechanics
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow, Royal Naval College
ThesisAlternating stress testing machine with record of researches carried out (1915)

Haigh is known for his contributions in the fields of metal fatigue, welding and theory of plasticity. He is particularly known for Haigh diagram.[7][8]

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

Notable publications
  • A new machine for alternating load tests (1912)[9]
  • Report on Alternating Stress Tests of a Sample of Mild Steel received from the British Association Stress Committee (1916) [10]
  • Experiments on the fatigue of brasses (1917)[11]
  • Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit (1920)[12][13]
  • Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit (1922)[14]
  • Stresses in Bridges (1924)[15]
  • Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue (1928)[16]
  • Electric welding as an integral part of structural design (1939)[17]

References
  1. "World War 1 at sea: Royal Navy Medals - Award of the Orders of the British Empire". 8 August 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  2. "Obituary. Professor Bernard Parker Haigh, M.B.E., D.Sc". Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 16 (6): 209–210. 31 January 1941. doi:10.1680/ijoti.1941.13655.
  3. "The University of Glasgow Story: Bernard Parker Haigh". 8 January 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. Milne-Thomson, Louis Melville (22 February 1941). "Obituaries: Prof. B.P. Haigh, M.B.E." Nature. 147 (3721): 230. doi:10.1038/147230a0.
  5. "Obituary: Bernard Parker Haigh" (PDF). The Engineer. 171: 81–82. 1 April 1941. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  6. https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bernard_Parker_Haigh
  7. Sendeckyj, Georg P. (April 2001). "Constant life diagrams — a historical review". International Journal of Fatigue. 23 (4): 347–353. doi:10.1016/S0142-1123(00)00077-3.
  8. Stephens, Ralph Ivan; Fatemi, Ali; Stephens, Robert R.; Fuchs, Henry Otten (2000). Metal Fatigue in Engineering (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-471-51059-8. OCLC 43599226.
  9. Haigh, Bernard Parker (22 November 1912). "A new machine for alternating load tests". Engineering. London: Design Council. 94: 721–723.
  10. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1916). "Report on Alternating Stress Tests of a Sample of Mild Steel received from the British Association Stress Committee". Report of the Eighty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 7–11 September 1915, Manchester. London: John Murray. pp. 163–170.
  11. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1917). "Experiments on the fatigue of brasses". Journal of the Institute of Metals. London: Institute of Metals. 18 (2): 55–77.
  12. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1920). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit". Report of the Eighty-Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 9–13 September 1919, Bournemouth. London: John Murray. pp. 486–495.
  13. Haigh, Bernard Parker (30 January 1920). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit". Engineering. London: Design Council. 109: 158–160.
  14. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1922). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit". Report of the Eighty-Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 7–14 September 1921, Edinburgh. London: John Murray. pp. 324–329.
  15. Wilson, J. S.; Haigh, Bernard Parker (1924). "Stresses in Bridges". Report of the Ninety-First Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 12–19 September 1923, Liverpool. London: John Murray. pp. 368–382.
  16. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1928). "Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 24: 125–137. doi:10.1039/TF9282400125.
  17. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1939). "Electric welding as an integral part of structural design". Transactions of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders. 55 (2): 43–82.


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