Abstract
IT is not often that one can say, ex animo, that a book “fulfils a long-felt want”. This is, however, very true of Prof. Nádai's volume, which brings together in a scholarly fashion much scattered information, otherwise difficult of access. The book is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the plastic state of matter with special reference to metals and to mechanical engineering problems, while Part II is concerned with applications of the mechanics of the plastic state to problems of geology and geophysics. The treatment is singularly clear and full throughout, and is built up on a sure theoretical basis in a manner which makes very pleasant reading.
Plasticity: a Mechanics of the Plastic State of Matter.
By Dr. A. Nádai, assisted by A. M. Wahl. (Engineering Societies Monographs.) Revised and enlarged from the first German edition. Pp. xxiii + 349. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1931.) 30s. net.
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F., A. Plasticity: a Mechanics of the Plastic State of Matter . Nature 131, 383 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131383c0
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