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The requirement to transmit power from an engine to various forms of machinery through a rotating shaft is commonplace. Often, in this dynamic transmission, the shaft is solid with a circular cross-section. In other instances it may be desired to prevent, as far as possible, a torsional rotation being transmitted from one point to another. That is, we may wish to design a cylinder (perhaps of least weight) of some cross section; not necessarily circular nor solid, which is ‘stiff’ with respect to torsion.
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Ward, J.P. (1992). The General Torsion Problem. In: Solid Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8026-7_7
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