Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber; 4 January 1872 in
Krościenko nad Dunajcem
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– 9 December 1950) was a Polish
mechanical engineer
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,
educator
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, and scientist. He was a member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundation, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego.
His career began as a
professor
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at
Lwów Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University ( ua, Націона́льний університе́т «Льві́вська політе́хніка») is the largest scientific university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since its foundation in 1816, it has bee ...
(now known as the
Lviv Polytechnic
Lviv Polytechnic National University ( ua, Націона́льний університе́т «Льві́вська політе́хніка») is the largest scientific university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since its foundation in 1816, it has bee ...
) in 1908, later serving as
rector
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from 1922 to 1923. In the late 1920s he was professor and department chair of
Warsaw University of Technology
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. After the Second World War he helped organize the
Gdańsk University of Technology
The Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech, former ''GUT''; pl, Politechnika Gdańska) is a technical university in the Wrzeszcz borough of Gdańsk, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has eight faculties and with 41 fi ...
.
In 1949, he was named department chair at
AGH University of Science and Technology
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, serving until his death the following year, at the age of 78.
Tensile Stress Theorem
He formulated the
tensile stress
In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity. It is a quantity that describes the magnitude of forces that cause deformation. Stress is defined as ''force per unit area''. When an object is pulled apart by a force it will cause elonga ...
theorem, an important equation in studies of
tension
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* Psychological stress
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* Tension (geology), a stress which stretches rocks in two opposite directions
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known also as
Huber's equation Huber's equation, first derived by a Polish engineer Tytus Maksymilian Huber, is a basic formula in elastic material tension calculations, an equivalent of the equation of state, but applying to solids. In most simple expression and commonly in use ...
.
See also
*
Yield surface
A yield surface is a five-dimensional surface in the six-dimensional space of stresses. The yield surface is usually convex and the state of stress of ''inside'' the yield surface is elastic. When the stress state lies on the surface the materi ...
*
Stress–energy tensor
The stress–energy tensor, sometimes called the stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor, is a tensor physical quantity that describes the density and flux of energy and momentum in spacetime, generalizing the stress ...
*
Maxwell–Huber–Hencky–von Mises theory
External links
PROFESOR HUBER -naukowiec, społecznik, ostatni prezes Kasy im. Mianowskiego retrieved 2008-05-31.
Polish educators
Polish engineers
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1872 births
1950 deaths
Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology
Lviv Polytechnic alumni
Lviv Polytechnic rectors
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
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