Alan Arnold Griffith CBE FRS (13 June 1893 – 13 October 1963), was an English engineer and the son of Victorian science fiction writer George Griffith...
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variants include: Alan Arnold Griffith, British engineer specializing in fracture mechanics and aircraft gas turbine engines Anastasia Griffith, British actress...
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issued 1934-01-02, assigned to CCWakefield &Co Ltd GB patent 414410, Alan Arnold Griffith; William Helmore, "Means for preventing freezing of the induction...
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the propeller to rotate freely, independent of compressor speed. Alan Arnold Griffith had published a paper on compressor design in 1926. Subsequent work...
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Griffith Medal and Prize was awarded annually from 1965 to 2021 by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in commemoration of Alan Arnold Griffith...
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ISBN 978-0-19-259291-0. Alan Arnold Griffith was born on 13 June 1893, the eldest of three children [...] Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1990). "Griffith, George (i.e...
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needed to change the shape. Fracture mechanics was established by Alan Arnold Griffith and George Rankine Irwin. This important theory is also known as...
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mechanics, as it exists today, was not developed until the 1920s, when Alan Arnold Griffith studied the brittle fracture of glass. Starting in the 1940s, the...
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nucleation stress) of a material was first theoretically estimated by Alan Arnold Griffith in 1921: σ t h e o r e t i c a l = E γ r o {\displaystyle \sigma...
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The man largely responsible for the development of the TMR was Dr Alan Arnold Griffith, who had worked on gas turbine design at the Royal Aircraft Establishment...
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Armstrong Siddeley produced a larger version as the successful Sapphire. Alan Arnold Griffith published a seminal paper in 1926, An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine...
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research paper Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design by English engineer Alan Arnold Griffith. Among the suggestions are the design for a turboprop and changing...
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considerable advances over the state of the art in compressors. Alan Arnold Griffith published An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design in 1926 leading...
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keeping with Rolls' use of river names for gas turbine engines. Alan Arnold Griffith had proposed a number of different bypass or turbofan engine designs...
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6,500 lbf the engine was based on an initial project concept by Alan Arnold Griffith. which combined an axial compressor with a combustion system and...
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Establishment, Farnborough, Report no. H 1111. Rubbra, A. A. (1964). "Alan Arnold Griffith. 1893–1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
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following the design pioneered at the Royal Aircraft Establishment by Alan Arnold Griffith. Known as the "ASX" for "Armstrong Siddeley eXperimental", the original...
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crack growth in rubber, starting from the work of Alan Arnold Griffith. He demonstrated that Griffith's strain energy release rate provided a useful way...
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor: Fluid mechanics, theory of dislocations. Alan Arnold Griffith: founder of Fracture mechanics George Rankine Irwin: father of modern...
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would use five times as much fuel as a piston engine. [1] 1926: Alan Arnold Griffith publishes his groundbreaking paper Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine...
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never been used commercially due to its low efficiency. 1923 (1923): Alan Arnold Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, describing a way...
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (/ˈʃwɔːrtsənɛɡər/ SHWORT-sə-neg-ər, Austrian German: [ˈarnɔlt ˈaːlɔʏs ˈʃvartsn̩ˌɛɡɐ] ; born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and...
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Between 1936 and 1940 Alan Arnold Griffith designed a series of turbine engines that were built under the direction of Hayne Constant at the Royal Aircraft...
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Kármán swirling flow, and phenomena like Kármán vortex street. 1921 – Alan Arnold Griffith develops his theory of fracture mechanics. 1922 – Supersonic wind...
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Gouge flap Granville Brothers – GeeBee racers Jay Greene (1942–2017) Alan Arnold Griffith (1893–1963) – jet engine designer Gus Grissom (1926–1967) – Apollo...
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Dee Sir Sheldon Francis Dudley Sir John Carew Eccles Howard Florey Alan Arnold Griffith Sir Harry Work Melville Joseph Needham Sir Albert Cherbury David...
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Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967) 1893 – Alan Arnold Griffith, English engineer (d. 1963) 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author...
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681 military transport aircraft project. Designed by a team led by Alan Arnold Griffith, the RB.141 was originally designed to meet a new propulsion requirement...
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250-500 shp turboprop taken up by Coventry Climax as the C.P.35 Alan Arnold Griffith Buttler 2019, p. 4. Buttler 2019, p. 5. Golley and Gunston 2010,...
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Shankar Ray, Indian diplomat and politician; in Calcutta (d. 2010) Alan Arnold Griffith, the discoverer of the principles behind metal fatigue, announced...
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