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THE report of the British Association (Section G), Committee on Stresses in Overstrained Materials, presented at Norwich, states that particular consideration has been given to the requirements of the engineering profession and industry in view of present and future developments. By the increasing use of electric and other methods of welding in structural work, the problem of plastic overstrain has reached such high importance as to become one of the determining factors in design, and the Committee puts forward the considered view that the so-called ‘lower yield point’ affords the most satisfactory and reliable basis for the comparison of structural steels. The several advantages attached to its adoption are set forth seriatim, and a draft specification is submitted. The Committee, of which the chairman is Sir Henry Fowler, expresses the opinion that the lower yield point should be included in the British Standard Specifications, and recommends that the desirability of its addition be brought to the notice of the British Standards Institution.
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The Lower Yield Point of Stress. Nature 136, 579 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136579c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136579c0