The Collected Papers of Raymond D. Mindlin Volume I: The Late James Kip Finch Professor Emeritus of Applied Science, Columbia University [Paperback]

The present volume makes available in one convenient place all the research papers published by Raymond D. Mindlin in the course of a half-century of professional activity. Included, in addition, is the full text of three of his extended review articles, because these remain timely as well as historically important. Also to be found here is a brief sketch, written by one of us, his student and co-author, colleague and friend. It contains Mindlin's basic biographical data, although it dwells primarily on an analysis of his work and a chronicling of his accomplishments. The papers reprinted herein are reproduced photographically as they ap? peared originally. We have excluded several short review articles; moreover, to our regret, because of constraints of space we have been unable to print three extended reviews. These are: The photoelastic method of stress analy? sis, published in volume 10 of the Journal of Applied Physics; a short mono? graph, Dynamics of package cushioning, which may be found in volume 24 of the Bell System Technical Journal; and the chapter entitled Analogies, written for the Handbook of Experimental Stress Analysis.[1] A Reflection Polariscope for Photoelastic Analysis.- [2] Structural Beams in Torsion.- [3] Contribution au Probl?me d?quilibre de l?lasticit? dun Solide Ind?finie Limit? par un Plan.- [4] Force at a Point in the Interior of a Semi-Infinite Solid.- [5] Note on the Galerkin and Papkovitch Stress Functions.- [6] Stresses Around Circular Holes in Dams and Buttresses.- [7] Pressure Distributions on Retaining Walls.- [8] Analysis of Doubly Refracting Materials with Circularly and Elliptically Polarized Light.- [9] Stress Systems in a Circular Disk Under Radial Forces.- [10] Distortion of the Photoelastic Fringe Pattern in an Optically Unbalanced Polariscope.- [11] The Equiangular Strain-Rosette.- [12] Stresses in a Heavy Disk Suspended from an Eccentric Peg.- [13] Stresses in an Eccentrically Rotating Disk.- [14] GravitationallóB