Giordano Riccati or Jordan Riccati (25 February 1709 – 20 July 1790) was the first experimental
mechanician
A mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in a related or sub-field: engineering or computational mechanics, applied mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Names other than mecha ...
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
[Bell,J. F., 1971, ''The experimental foundations of solid mechanics'', Handbuch der Physik VIa/I, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.]
:
Even though the experiments were performed more than 200 years ago, this value is remarkably close to accepted values found in engineering handbooks in 2007.
Giordano Riccati was the son of the theoretical mechanician
Jacopo Riccati
Jacopo Francesco Riccati (28 May 1676 – 15 April 1754) was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice. He is best known for having studied the equation which bears his name.
Education
Riccati was educated first at the Jesuit school for th ...
and brother of Jesuit mathematician and physicist
Vincenzo Riccati.
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18th-century Italian people