THE RESTORING TORQUE AND DAMPING IN WIDE CU-BE TORSION STRIPS

Revised values are given for the stress-dependent damping in Cu-Be tor sion strips [Phys. Lett. A 197 (1995) 197; 198 (1995) 474 (E)]. New wo rk has shown that the relation then taken for the restoring torque of a heavily loaded strip in torsion failed to include a load dependent ( gravitational) term. its inclusion removes the inconsistency then note d between experimental results at high loads and theoretical predictio ns made in an earlier paper. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.