Solid Cylinders of Elliptic Section. 

 Fig. S.-b/a=-6. 



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Finally, the curve ceases to cut the rim, and its constricted 

 shape near the minor axis tends to disappear, till we get a 

 type closely resembling the ellipse itself, as in fig. 4, which 

 answers to b/a = '8, rj = -25. So long, however, as 6/a<l, 

 the area of radial compression is thickest at the end of the 

 minor axis. 



Fig. 4.— b/a='8. 

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§ 26. More precise information as to the details for various 

 values of r) may be derived from the following tables. Table 

 VIII. gives #0, the distance from the centre of the points 

 where the curve of no radial strain cuts the major axis. 





Table VIIL- 



—Value of xja. 





b/a. 



r}= 0. -2. 



•25. -3. 



•5. 







1 1 



\ 1 



1 



•2 



1 -996 



•995 -994 



•991 



•4 



1 -987 



•984 -982 



•972 



•6 



1 -976 



•972 -967 



•953 



•8 



1 -963 



•956 -950 



•931 



1-0 



1 943 



•931 -920 



•882 



