Bernard Parker Haigh

Bernard Parker Haigh
Professor Bernard Parker Haigh
Born	8 July 1884 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	18 January 1941 (aged 56) Greenwich, London, England pneumonia
Citizenship	UK
Fields	Applied mechanics
Institutions	University of Glasgow, Royal Naval College
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Thesis	Alternating stress testing machine with record of researches carried out (1915)
Known for	Haigh diagram, Haigh-Westergaard stress space, Beltrami-Haigh yield criterion
Spouse	Mildred May Cole
Children	Ian

Bernard Parker Haigh, MBE^[1] (8 July 1884^[2][3] - 18 January 1941^[4][5]) was a professor of applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Haigh is known for his contributions in the fields of metal fatigue, welding and theory of plasticity. He is particularly known for Haigh diagram.^[6][7]

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

Notable publications

• A new machine for alternating load tests (1912)^[8]
• Report on Alternating Stress Tests of a Sample of Mild Steel received from the British Association Stress Committee (1916) ^[9]
• Experiments on the fatigue of brasses (1917)^[10]
• Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit (1920)^[11][12]
• Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit (1922)^[13]
• Stresses in Bridges (1924)^[14]
• Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue (1928)^[15]
• Electric welding as an integral part of structural design (1939)^[16]

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 ICE 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Haigh, Bernard Parker (22 November 1912). "A new machine for alternating load tests". Engineering (London: Design Council) 94: 721–723.
9. 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.
10. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1917). "Experiments on the fatigue of brasses". Journal of the Institute of Metals (London: Institute of Metals) 18 (2): 55–77.
11. 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.
12. Haigh, Bernard Parker (30 January 1920). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit". Engineering (London: Design Council) 109: 158–160.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Haigh, Bernard Parker (1928). "Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue". Transactions of the Faraday Society 24: 125–137. doi:10.1039/TF9282400125.
16. 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.