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Swimming, softball, dancing and eating will highlight the Fritz Engineering Research society's annual picnic at Nazareth Com­munity park on July 14.

According to Robert L. Keller, secretary, the program will be at follows: at 2 p.m., soltball at the upper ball park* at 6 p.m. supper and election of officers. Swim­ming, softball, dancing, etc., will last till 10 p.m.

"As has been the for the past several yean," Ktttrr stated, "each family is •d ied to bring its own sup­per (the park has a refresh­ment stand which sells soft drinks "If possible," the secretary add­

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All members are urged to at­tend the annual initiation of new members on Friday, July 13, at 4 30 p.m.

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"Operaton Failure" is currently under way in Fritz lab, the object being to test several concrete beams and columns until they break, or as the engineers in charge say, "fail."

It all began back in December when the seniors of the civil en­gineering department were re-quud for their course in reinforc­ed concrete to design, make, and tmt several beams and columns.

Working as a group, the class designed several beams three feet long, one of twelve feet, and two columns five feet long The design consist­ed of specifying the amount and size of steel reinforcing bars needed and the quanti­ties of water, cement, stone, and sand to be used in the concrete. After approval of the design by

their instructor, Prof. A. C. Loew-er, the required materials were or-

1 • dered. A foreman was selected from the class, and work began on mixing concrete, and placing the reinforcing bars.

Last week, after the proper cur­ing period for the concrete, the actual testing began, with dozens of interested observers anxiously waiting for pieces of concrete to begin flying from the shattering beam. To their disappointment, nothing quite as spectacular as an atom smasher was to be seen, but to the seniors it was the cli­max of weeks of preparation, and their results closely verified their predicted design failure.

To test beams, they are supported at each end, a load is applied by the testing ma­chine in the middle, or at the third points. Columns are placed vertically in the ma­chine, and the load is applied axially. Load readings are ob­tained from the dial of the hydraulic machines while the deformation, or change of length, can be measured at various points by SR-4 strain

During the past few years, work in the concrete lab has won

more and more acclaim from other colleges and universities, and from industry.

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Prot Howard S. Strauaser of the Civil Engineering and Mechanics department ha* returned from a two-month assignment with Boeing Airplane company's Summer Faculty Program, held Is Seattle.

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• lished on the Lehigh jsity campus in 1909 by John trustee of the University since

Ing the Lehigh machine are in op- founding In 1865 by Asa Pack* eration. Both are Government The present building, 94 feet wide*

**.* [J"0 ,1* ****& rtudent owned. One is located at the Phila- and 115 feet long, was fitted with delphia Naval Base; the other is an 800,000 pound Riehle universal at the United States Bureau of testing machine and seven similar Reclamation in Denver, Colo. jmachines of lesser capacity. When

l c LEHIGH MACHINE installed, this 800.000 pound ma-S I l g 2 S z L - 5 ^ : . i . ^ >! ^ 9 - ^ - f W 4 ^ ^ ^ w l l l K. . „ chine was the largest vertical uni-serawQ*eompression machine to je These two machines will be ex- ,,„„„„, •-„••„_ m«rL._« t„ •>,- „«,,., eooatructed at an estimated cost celled by the Lehigh machine in £ f s a l testin* m^htoe in the coun-of 8400,000, accessory equipment the size and structure which can ^r: , . . . „ . .- -~A valued at $300,000 and modern lab- be tested. The most significant dis- Approximately one hundred large

/mmercial projects have been han­dled by the laboratory annually in oratories which will widen the tinction will be the large platform

•cope ef testing in every field, measuring 30 feet in width by 100 Primary responsibility for the feet tolength which will extend f S t r v ? n ^

design and supervision of the con- the capacity of the machine far n d ustry include vibrational fatigue •truction and Installation of the beyond existing ones. ' » S £ , ? ™ Vt * i J^* machine will be shared by repre- This feature alone will make pos- Bethlehem S*el Co., development aenUUves of the Bethlehem Steel sible for the first time ful l-size0 1* complete alarm system lor Co.. representatives of the Bald- tests on plate girders of 100-foot m i n e . s " p P° r t

T / a ; A*L ^ . 2 S 2 S win Lima-Hamilton Corp.. Fhila- span and unlimited height. Here- t o n * l t h the United States Bureau delphia; and Prof. William J. Eney, tofore. engineers have had to base J* Mines and the Young Testing head of the department of civil their design on tests made on much Machine Co a study of torsional .r>«4n«..-4,t<, m~A ™^x«„«„. .«,« AI «rr..nar <rirH«« characteristics of industrial truck

E£or*t?rv^t Kw-h^rSSSif?- Ttu m a c h ^ e „ w i * • ***** ° f ufacturing Co., tests of welded con-Laboratory at Lehigh University, approximately 53 feet above the n e c t i o n a for ^ p i e r f o r r n s f o r ^ They wiU be assisted by Lynn floor level will permit the testing Chesapeake Bay Bridge and tests

8. Beedle, assistant director of of building columns and the com- of m i n e r o o f supports and timbers. Frits Laboratory, Samuel J. Er- pression members of railroad and other commercial tests include rera, engineer of tests at the lab- building trusses. Tests can then ^ investigation of erection con-oratory, and staff members of the be made on members 36 feet long n e c t ions used in construction of the department of civil engineering and and of a cross section used in these Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falla mechanics at Lehigh University, structures. a n d t h e behavior of the compres-RESEARCH TESTS j Structural tension members 36 sion members of the Mississippi

Commenting on the facilities to f e e t to length, such as the suspen- River Bridge at Dubuque, la. be offered by the new laboratory s i o n bridge cables and those in j ^ addition, numerous research

, Jonathan Jones, chief en- l a r8B railroad bridges can also be programs have been conducted in of fabricated steel construe- tested. No longer will the engineer the y r i t z Engineering Laboratory

tion of the Bethlehem Steel Co., oav* to design on the basis of i n r e c e n t years under the auspices said, "The research possibilities t*8*8 made on small replicas of o{ ^e Engineering Foundation, offered by equipment of such pro- these important structural mem-gelding Research Council, Re-portions will be of inestimable he™- Isearch Corp., Column Research value to fabricators, engineers and j Another item being given con-Council, American Institute of Steel to the general public. The steel, sideration is a 300,000 pound hy- Construction, Office of Naval Re-f cement and other heavy manufac- draulic universal testing machine search. turing industries will find here the which will contain features not Also American Iron and Steel In-means of testing to destruction the available in the present machines stitute, U. S. Bureau of Yards and huge columns and girders basic to in Fritz Laboratory. Docks, Sandia Corp., U. S. Bureau modern structures. Resulting modi- The accessory equipment 10 the of Ships, Assn. of Iron and Steel ncation to design could maintain 5,000.000-pound machine will include Engineers. Pennsylvania State High high safety factors while reducing many features to insure the finest way Department, Pressure Vessel weight and cost appreciably." in testing facilities. A device known Research Committee, and the U.S.

The 5.000.000-pound capacity ma- as the automatic load maintainer Public Roads Administration. serviced by a 30-ton crane, whI permit the 5,000,000-pound Graduates of Lehigh University

with auxiliary apparatus, to* ce to act continuously on a who received their early research make possible a vast expan- structure as it deflects and fails, training to the laboratory are now to the services heretofore of- eliminating manual control. in responsible charge of work in

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r. specification WTittag boards, a movable platform which will sur- Engineers Lehigh Structural Steel engineering society research round the machine will greatly to- Co Cornell AeronautfsfffsjpteOora-

mittees over the entire nation crease Its usefulness. This platform tones Dravo Corp ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B will make use of these facilities can be positioned at any height to motive Works New ^ L l l l l H H not now available to them." support small Instruments and a s i ty University of WaMn

Tests which engineers are ex- crew of observers. v e r pected to brirlg to the laboratory The new overhead 20-ton crane versity University ei Illin from Industry will include all kinds will permit easy handling of struc- j o r m s Hopkins UnivesssssG of materials including concrete tural components throughout the Sity 0f Texas and i cylinders and blocks, aluminum laboratory. It will be so located tries of Australia S •« and magnesium castings, fabrteat- as to pass over the 5,000.000 pound Norway ed steel, oil well shafts, wood and machine. Like the existing 10-ton, wire rope. SPECIAL FLOOR

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DQM1INUING my rounds ef Use various departments this week I visited Dr. B. G. Johnston in Fritz laboratory, of which he is director.

Dr. Johnston suggested that I get in touch with Mr. Gerald Kubo, a graduate student doing rs search which Dr. Johnston thought would be of interest to my readers.

I located Mr. Kubo in an up­stairs room working on his draw­ings. By way of introduction to his project Mr. Kubo asked me if I remembered Dr. Chang's torsion machine, the thesis for which he received his doctorate.

As some of you may remember, I did a column on it a while back, and it's a hard machine to forget! It vaguely resembles an overgrown lathe with a bed some 24 feet long. At one end is a movable frame to hold one end of tested girder sec­tion rigid. At the other, a large circlar plate to which the other end of the girder under test it fas­tened. This revolves slowly, a few degrees an hour and twists—ap­plies torsion—to the girder. The girder is a "built up" unit such as you see as part of large bridges, etc.

WELL, ME. KUBO explained. this twisting of one end of the gir­der while holding the other end fixed is a "Uniform Torsion" test. His project was to determine effect of "Non-uniform Torsion"; that is holding both ends of the beam

from turning and applying torque to the center. The purpose is to find how well such a torque fol­lows available theory. The beam should act somewhere between a solid, rolled girder, and separate sections.

One of the interesting features of this project is that the actual work of testing will be carried on in another laboratory, in this case at Swarthmore college. The work, which is a thesis for Mr. Kubo's doctorate, is under Lehigh's Juris­diction, but the supporting frame­work Dr. Chang used—the "bed" of his machine is not quite long enough; Mr. Kubo requires a few more feet It seems that just such a set up is available at Swarth­more and they agreed to its use. This is the first large scale project using this feature of their equip­ment.

YOU OFTEN HEAR of Univer­sities cooperating with the govern­ment or with industry; here is an example of inter-university coop­eration.

Industry helped in this project too. The project is being financed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. They were approach­ed late in April and final O.K. was not received until July. Bethlehem Steel, however, went right ahead making up the girder for the test and completed it two weeks before schedule.

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While Dr. Jenkins had no speci­fic projects to relate, he mentioned something which I think is of in­terest to you readers.

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Fu-Kuei Chang, Lawrence Calvin Brink Research fellow, is compiling data and records on all of the past work of the laboratory.

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The laboratory machine shop Is equipped with lathes, millers, drill preaaea, grinders, and miscellaneous tools and eoAupment. The welding shop provides both electric arc and resistance welding.

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A PAPER on "Torsion of Built up Girders" by Fu-Kuei Chang, re-t search assistant in civil engineer­ing, and Dr. Bruce G. Johnston, professor of civil engineering and director of Fritz Laboratory, was presented at 11:00 a.m. yesterday at a meeting of the Structural Di­vision session of the annual meet­ing of the American society of ci­vil engineers at the Hotel Commo­dore, New York City.

Other principals from Lehigh at the ASCE annual meeting which opened Wednesday and is continu­ing through today, include Lynn Beedle, Lehigh research engineer, who is secretary of the Column Research council and played an active part in the meeting of the Councii technical board and the steering committee of the commit­tee on research which took place at 10:00 a.m. today in the Engi­neering s o c i e t y building. Dr. Johnston is also attending these.

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sessions this week include Prof. William J. Eney, head of the de­partment of civil engineering; E. R. Johnston and Murray B. Mc­pherson, assistant professor in ci­vil engineering; Hale Sutherland, professor of civil engineering, and Anthony A. Topractsoglou, re­search assistant.

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Department of Highways, the US. Bureau of Public Roads parti­cipating in this support, and Le­high university. The Lehigh Struc­tural Steel Company donated most of the test specimens used in the investigation, which also was a basis for Mr. Chang's doctoral dis­sertation.

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Assisting Dr Johns* new program, titled "Ultimate Strength of Welded Continuous Framee," will be Mr I

DR. BRUCE O. JOHNSTON engineer, and re-

C. H. Yang, Jan Ruzek and C H Chen.

The study is being sponsored by the Welding Research Coun­cil, the American Institute of Steel Construction, and the United States Navy Office of Naval Research at an estimated cost of $13,000. Cooperating in an advisory capacity wUl be the Column Research Council.

Earlier testing programs at Fritz lab have suggested the possibilities of greater strength in welded frames of buildings and bridges than is indicated in present design formulas

Commenting on the program, Dr Johnston explained that in the usual design procedure for welded structures, the factor of safety is based on theories which fail to consider the unique vantages of welding. The ac­tual strength of a welded frame may thus be much greater than Is now calculated.

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members of Lehigh Uni-vgggMH i f* • - BagvgaMlsp| iao-oratory staff was preaagued at the 1*48 American InjgJtaU o f Steel Engineers eonventttti and Iron and Steel exposition in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. 2S, 39, and 30 and Oct l

The paper, entitled in Hot-Metal Ladles,'' by Knud-Endre Knudsen, Garrett Under -man Hoppes, research fellow at Lehigh; W H Munse. research engineer, and Dr B G. Johns­ton, professor of civil engineer­ing and director of Fritz labor­atory, was presented by Mr. Knudsen.

The presentation took place at the standardization session last Tuesday, Sept. 28 il^ttw ball room of the Cleveland Pub lie auditorium.

The Friti Engineering labor­atory has undertaken a p. of experiments to deter the "Ultimate Strength of ' ed Continuous Frames" The

t is sponsored by ng Reaearch councs

American Institute of Stee struction and the Office of Na­val Research Professor Bruce O. Johnston will dire* periments. assisted by Beedle. r« research assistants C H Chen, Jan Rusek and C H Yang,

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During his six years in the Navy, Beadle also was an instructor of

strength t . materials at the Post­graduate School of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. A giaduate of the ty of California, he has been at Lehigh *inc- July.

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A new research engineer has been assigned to Fritz Laboratory. He is Lynn S. Beedle, a World

Navy Vet Named Fritz Laboratory Research Engineer

Lynn 8. Beedle of Mill Valley. Calif. has been named research engineer at Frits Laboratory at Le­high University, Dr. 1. Kenneth Ssauay, vice-president of the uni-veratty, snnouaced today. He will work with Dr. Bruce O. Johnston, professor of civil engineering and associate director of FriU Labora-•on

A graduate of the University of California sa HHt, Beedle Joins the Lehigh ataff after sis years of service in the United States Navy. He has completed research on full scale test* of timber trusses, the effecUvaneaa of bolted eoaneetfcma, and has conducted experiment* with underwater explosion models.

Whim an estiva duty with the Maty, he was ameer in charge of a research group at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth. Vir­ginia, and an instructor of strength of materials at the Post-graduate School of the United States Naval Academy. Annapolis.

He u a member of Chi Xpaflea fraternity; Tau Beta Pi. national honorary engineering society found­ed at Lehigh in 1SSS by the late Professor E. H. William*; Sigma Xi, national honorary science society, and the American Society of Civil Engineer*.

New Research binonneed Grants totaling $15,000 have

bean made to the Lehigh Institute of Research for continuation of current studies and the beginning of new research. Dr. Ha Neville, director of the I announced recently.

The Research Corporation has given Lehigh a Frederick Gardner Cotrell Special Grant for a p: ject entitled "Torsion of Structural Members." Thus will be under the supervision of Dr. Bruce G. John­ston, professor of civil engineering and associate director of Fritz Lab­oratory. A large capacity tors; testing machine will be co­ed in Fritz Laboratory 1 project

The William S. Marrell Com- j pany of Cincinnati, Ohio, has . tended its research project on * synthesis and chemical behavior a number of new sulfone drugs I use in the treatment of tubercu-

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AIM OF FRITZ PROJECT Dr Bruce O Johnston, direc­

tor of Fritz engineering labora­tory, will be jf a five-year project, for the study

led continuous frames for bssJaftng and brsdjje construc­tion assigned u> the laboratory. it was announced this week by

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D*V BRUCE O. JOHNSTON die, research engineer, and re­search assistants, C. H. Yang, Jan Ruzek and C. H. Chen.

The study Is being sponsored by the Welding Research Coun-

he American Institute of Steel Construction, and the United States Navy Office of Naval Research at an estimated cost of $13,000. Cooperating in an advisory capacity will be the Column Research Council.

ligg testing programs at lab have suggested the

•s of greater strength in welded frames of buildings and bridges than is Indicated in present design formulas.

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Norwegian Educator Back Lehigh Staff Honors Former Associate

At Lehigh For Brief Visit • mat was out yesterday at Lehit \% Laboratory as Professor Inge Marti way, former research professor at the laboratory. first visit to the university since return;

Prof, Lyse arrived ••d States Sunda

by plane from Norway wht his wife and ildren now are making their home again, having returned from Sweden where they v during the Nazi occur

own country. Highlight of the two-day visit

which opened yesterday afternoon with a tour of the Hag-bedecked

Fritz Laboratory, was the dinner tut honor last evening by

member* of the Frits Engu Research Society, a social organ-

ii composed of star! h was organized «

se was at Lehigh. I

v, served as mast' monies for the h was held a Howard Johnson's restaur-

ng the tvei the guest of h<

photograph of Frits Laboratory. Lyse, who will be in this country

AO weeks, retired from his Le­high post in August, 1938, in order to return to lug native country. A graduate of the Norwegian Univer­sity of Technology where he re­ceived a civil engineering degree,

ihe came to Lehigh in 1929 as chief tests investigation In

I Fritz Laboratory. He was connect­ed with this project, which was sponsored by the Portland Cement Association for two years and than

' engineering materials, being •d to an associate professor-

in 1933, and to the past of re­search professor in 1937.

friend* of Prof. Lyse attending the dinner last night lnehided:

Mr and Mrs. Lynn Beedle, Dr, and Mrs. Elmer Bratt. Prof, and

Mlison Butts, Prof, and Mrs. William Eney, Mr and Mrs. Einar

i, Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Johna-•ir. and Mrs J. D. Leslie, Mr.

and Mm. O. J. Marsten, Prof, and Mrs. H. O. Payrow. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ready, Mr. and Mr* Rorhus, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Strom,

and Mrs. Hale Sutherland. Also the Misses Adnenne Scotch-

j brook, Frances Shamenek, Etta g snd Claire Young; Fu-Ku^i

jCbang Richard Cunningham, Ken-*L Harold O Hill. H. H. il H Kaar. Knud-Endre

iKnadseii. John Maxwell, Dr. Har-riUe, J. C Oabom, Bernt

jRoaid. Ray Repsher, Kenneth IgisttTeri. Harry Yang and Ai-Ting

I Arrangemetns tar the dinner {party were in charge of Miss ISootehbrook. who was s saint id by I members of the laboratory staff.

friends of Dr Inge Lyse. former Lehigh University research professor, honored him st a dinner in Allen town last nigh?

native Norway. Left to right are, seated: Dr. Bruce Johnston, Lehghs Frits frpgtrssertng laboratory director,

•.se. Standing: Dr. Hale Sutherland, crrfl srddnssting pro-irf Kreidler. president Frit* I0g.n1 whig Research Co., and m Eney, new director civil englnserlng department

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