Arthur Roderick Collar

Arthur Roderick Collar
Vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol
In office
1968–1969
Preceded byJohn E. Harris
Succeeded bySir Alec Merrison
Personal details
Born(1908-02-22)22 February 1908
West Ealing, England
Died12 February 1986(1986-02-12) (aged 77)
Children2
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge
ProfessionScientist
Engineer

Arthur Roderick Collar CBE FRS[1] FREng (22 February 1908 – 12 February 1986) was an English scientist and engineer who made significant contributions in the areas of aeroelasticity,[2] matrix theory and its applications in engineering dynamics.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Bishop, R. E. D. (1987). "Arthur Roderick Collar. 22 February 1908 – 12 February 1986". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 33: 164–185. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1987.0006. JSTOR 769949.
  2. ^ Collar, A. R. (1978). "The first fifty years of aeroelasticity". Aerospace. 2. 5: 12–20.
  3. ^ A.G. Pugsley. "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40052. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Collar, (Arthur) Roderick (1908–1986)
  4. ^ Traill-Nash, R. W.; Collar, A. R. (1953). "The Effects of Shear Flexibility and Rotatory Inertia on the Bending Vibrations of Beams". The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 6 (2): 186. doi:10.1093/qjmam/6.2.186.
  5. ^ Collar, A. R. (1962). "On Centrosymmetric and Centroskew Matrices". The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. 15 (3): 265–281. doi:10.1093/qjmam/15.3.265.