Holdings Engineering Theoretical and Applied Mec... Concrete Testing Research File Finding Aid Holdings Engineering Theoretical and Applied Mec... Concrete Testing Research File Finding Aid Title: Concrete Testing Research File, 1914-51
ID: 11/11/7
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Extent: 3.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Concrete Analysis, Materials Testing, Reinforced Concrete, Structural Analysis, Wheel Testing, Railroad, World War I - Agricultural and Industrial Production and Construction, World War I - Scientific Research and Development
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Concrete Testing Research file of Frank E. Richart '14 (1892-1851), research professor of engineering materials (1921-51), including a bibliography of publications, correspondence, manuscript copies of articles and publications, reprints of publications, data sheets, tabulations and photographs concerning concrete tests for the Emergency Test Fleet Corporation (1917-18), effects of brackets on binding moments in reinforced concrete (1922-28), web stresses in reinforced concrete beams (1927-28); State of Illinois Bureau (1935-37), plastic flow of reinforced concrete frames (1931-38), tests of reinforced concrete knee frames (1935-38); tests of 6-year-old reinforced concrete columns (1937-38); tests of chilled railway car wheels (1934-39) and gap grading of aggregates for concrete (1938, 1943).
The 1867 Report of the University Committee on Courses of Study and Faculty for the Illinois Industrial University listed a "Professorship of Analytical and Practical Mechanics" among the more important chairs of instruction and assigned courses in mechanics to the Polytechnic Department.1 Courses were first offered in 1870, with the appointment of Prof. Stillman W. Robinson.2 The history of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics as a department did not begin until 1895, when the Board of Trustees approved a new set of Faculty By-Laws, which reorganized colleges and departments. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics courses were considered service courses for the Engineering College and, although they had been offered separately since 1891, they were included within the Department of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering.3 Arthur N. Talbot was the first head of this Department, holding professorships in both Municipal and Sanitary Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and it was his prominence in both areas that led to their being combined in one department. Upon Talbot's retirement in 1926, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was created as a separate department, with the Municipal and Sanitary Engineering courses becoming part of the Civil Engineering Department.4
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 1st Report, 1867-68, pp. 50, 62.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 3rd Report, March 8, 1870, p. 47.
3. Catalogs and Registers, 1892-93, p. 45; Board of Trustees Transactions, 18th Report, February 13, 1895, p. 70.
4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 34th Report, July 7, 1926, p. 3.
Concrete Analysis
Materials Testing
Reinforced Concrete
Structural Analysis
Wheel Testing, Railroad
World War I - Agricultural and Industrial Production and Construction
World War I - Scientific Research and Development
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1111007.pdf
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