Abstract
THE modern use of metals and alloys is dependent to a very large extent on their plasticity, which allows them to be worked into useful forms in the solid state, at ordinary or at raised temperatures, by methods causing plastic flow. It is not only in course of manufacture that this plasticity is useful, since the same property is a safeguard against sudden fracture under stress. Possibly the most striking example of the importance of plasticity in metals is the hot–rolling of vast quantities of steel into many different forms, but the pressing of metal sheet into finished shapes at atmospheric temperatures is also now a great and expanding industry. To give one example, the present–day motor–car body is essentially an assemblage of sheet steel pressings.
The Metallurgy of Deep Drawing and Pressing
By Dr. J. Dudley Jevons. Pp. xvi + 700 + 164 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1940.) 50s. net.
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The Metallurgy of Deep Drawing and Pressing. Nature 148, 451–452 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148451a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148451a0
