He served as professor of engineering at the University of Glasgow from 1855. He contributed to civil and mechanical engineering as well as to thermodynamics. His research included: forces in frame structures, molecular physics, metal fatigue[?], soil mechanics, earth pressures, and the stability of retaining walls.
Rankine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853.
Important works
He died in Glasgow.
See also: Rankine cycle[?] principle, Rankine temperature scale
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