TABLE OF CONTENTS 



VOLUME UI 



THE DAMAGE PROCESS 



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Preface ^ 



SUMMARY PAPERS 



DAMAGE TO SfflP'S PLATES BY UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS (B)* 



S. Butte rworth, Admiralty Research Laboratory 1 



THE EFFECT OF A PRESSURE WAVE ON A PLATE OR DIAPHRAGM (A)* 



E. H. Kennard, David W. Taylor Model Basin 11 



THEORY OF STRUCTURES 



THE DISTORTION UNDER PRESSURE OF A DIAPHRAGM WHICH IS 

 CLAMPED ALONG ITS EDGE AND STRESSED BEYOND THE ELASTIC 

 LIMIT (B) 



G. I. Taylor, Cambridge University 107 



NOTE ON AN APPROXIMATE METHOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF 

 DYNAMICAL PROBLEMS (B) 



E. N. Fox, Admiralty Undex Works, Rosyth, Scotland 123 



PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF AND ABSORPTION OF ENERGY BY THIN 

 CIRCULAR PLATES UNDER NORMAL LOADING (A) 



A. N. Gleyzal, David W. Taylor Model Basin 129 



A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ENERGY ABSORPTION OF THIN 

 STEEL DIAPHRAGMS UNDER HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE (A) 



M. A. Greenfield, David W. Taylor Model Basin 143 



DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS: AN APPROACH FROM TRANSFORMATION 



THEORY AND A CRITERION FOR SCALING MODEL EXPERIMENTS (A) 

 J. C. Decius, Underwater Explosives Research Laboratory, 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 153 



A THEORY OF THE DYNAMIC PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF A THIN 

 DIAPHRAGM (A) 



G. E. Hudson, New York University 163 



THEORY OF ENERGY TRANSFER 



NOTE ON THE MOTION OF A FINITE PLATE DUE TO AN UNDERWATER 

 EXPLOSION (B) 



S. Butterworth, Admiralty Research Laboratory 201 



THE BODILY MOTION OF A SPHERE SUBJECTED TO THE PRESSURE 

 PULSE FROM AN UNDERWATER EXPLOSION (B) 



E. N. Fox, Admiralty Undex Works, Rosyth, Scotland 207 



SUMMARY OF FORMULAE RELEVANT TO REFLECTION OF EXPLOSION 

 PULSES FROM A PISTON IN AN INFINITE FIXED WALL (B) 



E. N. Fox, Admiralty Undex Works, Rosyth, Scotland 221 



* (A) American Contribution 

 (B) British Contribution 



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