Title :

Historical Details of Coulomb’s Torsional Forces in Metal Wires

Author(s) :

Oliveira, Agamenon [Auteur correspondant]
Escola Politécnica [Rio de Janeiro] [POLI / UFRJ]
Pisano, Raffaele [Auteur]
Physique - IEMN [PHYSIQUE - IEMN]
Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520 [IEMN]

Conference title :

7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, HMM 2022

City :

Granada-Jaén

Country :

Espagne

Start date of the conference :

2022-04-28

Book title :

Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science book series (HMMS,volume 40)

Journal title :

Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms, History of Mechanism and Machine Science

Publisher :

Springer International Publishing

Publication date :

2022-04-07

English keyword(s) :

History of mechanical oscillations
Torsional vibrations in wires
Elasticity problems in torsion
History of the torsion balance

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

English abstract : [en]

The theoretical and experimental research carried out by Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736–1806) to calculate torsional forces in metal wires had two objectives: 1) based on the Newtonian mechanical paradigm to determine the ...
Show more >The theoretical and experimental research carried out by Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736–1806) to calculate torsional forces in metal wires had two objectives: 1) based on the Newtonian mechanical paradigm to determine the torsional tensile strength of iron and brass wires, relating this to the length of the wire, its diameter and traction; 2) calculate the imperfection of the elastic reaction of the metal wires, and describe what possible consequences are taken, related to the laws of elasticity of the bodies involved. Based on historical documents––&––method, for the sake of brevity, we mainly aim to describe a) the early experiments and his combined torsional vibrations modelling, b) to detail Coulomb’s construction of the torsional balance. We integrated the methods outlined in History of Physics and History of Science and Technology.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Institut d'Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) - UMR 8520

Source :

Harvested from HAL