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A COMMITTEE having the above title has now been set up by leading technical institutions and societies in Great Britain to act as the British national organization in matters relating to materials and their testing. The need in Great Britain of some means to provide for more adequate co-ordination of the study of materials and their testing has, during the past year, received the earnest consideration of the principal technical institutions and societies which are concerned directly and indirectly with these important subjects. Twenty-two institutions and societies are represented on the Joint Committee. Essentially, the work of the Joint Committee will be divided into two fields of activity, national and international, of which the former will no doubt be of major importance. As a commencement in this field, the Committee is now engaged in making arrangements for a general discussion on the subject of the notched bar test to be held in Manchester in the early autumn of the present year. The activities of the International Association for Testing Materials in Great Britain are at present entrusted to the keeping of a British Committee, and the latter has agreed that, at the conclusion of the London Congress of the International Association for Testing Materials now being held (April 19-24), the Joint Committee shall take over the representation in Great Britain of all matters connected with the International Association. The first chairman of the Committee is Dr. H. J. Gough, largely through whose initiative the Joint Committee has come into being; the secretary is Mr. C. W. J. Taffs, of the staff of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Council of which has kindly offered the necessary facilities for office work at Storey's Gate, St. James's Park, London, S.W.I.
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Joint Committee on Materials and their Testing. Nature 139, 707–708 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139707c0
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