Bernard Parker Haigh, MBE[1] (8 July 1884[2][3] – 18 January 1941)[4][5] was a Scottish mechanical engineer. Haigh was educated at Allan Glen's School[6] and the University of Glasgow He served as professor of applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
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Haigh is known for his contributions in the fields of metal fatigue, welding and theory of plasticity. He is particularly known for Haigh diagram.[7][8]
In 1913 Haigh became a lecturer in applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College.
- A new machine for alternating load tests (1912)[9]
- Report on Alternating Stress Tests of a Sample of Mild Steel received from the British Association Stress Committee (1916) [10]
- Experiments on the fatigue of brasses (1917)[11]
- Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit (1920)[12][13]
- Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit (1922)[14]
- Stresses in Bridges (1924)[15]
- Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue (1928)[16]
- Electric welding as an integral part of structural design (1939)[17]
"Obituary. Professor Bernard Parker Haigh, M.B.E., D.Sc". Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 16 (6): 209–210. 31 January 1941. doi:10.1680/ijoti.1941.13655.
Stephens, Ralph Ivan; Fatemi, Ali; Stephens, Robert R.; Fuchs, Henry Otten (2000). Metal Fatigue in Engineering (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-471-51059-8. OCLC 43599226.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (22 November 1912). "A new machine for alternating load tests". Engineering. 94. London: Design Council: 721–723.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (1917). "Experiments on the fatigue of brasses". Journal of the Institute of Metals. 18 (2). London: Institute of Metals: 55–77.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (1920). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic-limit". Report of the Eighty-Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 9–13 September 1919, Bournemouth. London: John Murray. pp. 486–495.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (30 January 1920). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit". Engineering. 109. London: Design Council: 158–160.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (1922). "Strain-energy Function and the Elastic limit". Report of the Eighty-Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 7–14 September 1921, Edinburgh. London: John Murray. pp. 324–329.
Wilson, J. S.; Haigh, Bernard Parker (1924). "Stresses in Bridges". Report of the Ninety-First Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 12–19 September 1923, Liverpool. London: John Murray. pp. 368–382.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (1928). "Hysteresis in relation to cohesion and fatigue". Transactions of the Faraday Society. 24: 125–137. doi:10.1039/TF9282400125.
Haigh, Bernard Parker (1939). "Electric welding as an integral part of structural design". Transactions of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders. 55 (2): 43–82.