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THOSE who heard Prof. Southwell's lecture to the London Mathematical Society in 1937 will well remember how he communicated to his audience some of the great enthusiasm with which he had reacted to the method of relaxation, first advanced by Prof. Hardy Cross in 1932, and introduced to Great Britain by Prof. J. F. Baker, J. Morris and D. Williams (Aeronautical Research Committee, R. & M., 1667, 1670 and 1672). The great attraction of the method is that the engineering problem of estimating the stresses in a redundant steel framework is solved by a process of successive approximation, each step in which represents a definite engineering operation on the framework.
Relaxation Methods in Engineering Science
A Treatise on Approximate Computation. By Prof. R. V. Southwell. (Oxford Engineering Science Series.) Pp. vii + 252. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ; London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 17s. 6d. net.
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TEMPLE, G. Reaxation Methods in Engineering Science. Nature 149, 123–124 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149123a0
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