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THE general discussion on the failure of metals under internal and prolonged stress, held on Wednesday, April 6, was of special interest for several reasons. In the first place, being arranged jointly by the Faraday Society, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute, the Institute of Metals, the Institute of Shipbuilders in Scotland, and the East Coast Institution of Engineers, it constituted a symposium which united the physicist, the metallurgist, and the engineer in the discussion of a problem which can be solved only by the co-operation of all three. The problem itself, also, is of no small interest, whether viewed from the practical point of view of the engineer who is concerned with the adequate safety and permanence of his works, or from the scientific point of view as a question of the internal physics of metals and of solids in general.
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The Internal Physics of Metals. Nature 107, 218 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107218a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107218a0