Giordano Riccati

Giordano Riccati
Giordano Riccati

Giordano Riccati or Jordan Riccati was the first experimental mechanician to study material elastic moduli as we understand them today. His 1782 paper on determining the relative Young's moduli of steel and brass using flexural vibrations preceded Thomas Young's 1807 paper on the subject of moduli. The ratio that Riccati found was

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Date of Birth
February 25th, 1709
Age
317
Birth Place
Italy, Veneto
Date of Death
July 20th, 1790
Died Aged
81
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