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VOLUME 72 of the Journal of the Institute of Metals contains 721 pages of text together with an index occupying another ten pages, and fully maintains the high standard expected from this publication. Practically every aspect of non-ferrous metallurgy coming within the scope of the Institute is represented in the twenty-six papers, together with the discussions and correspondence upon them. To the metallurgist, the engineer, and the physicist concerned with the fundamentals of the metallic state alike, there is a direct appeal. The presidential address of Col. P. G. J. Gueterbock is of more than normal interest to those concerned with the health of the metallurgical industry as a whole, and the thirty-sixth May Lecture by Prof. N. F. Mott illuminates the relationship between atomic physics and the strength of metals. Of the remaining papers, the effects of residual stresses are considered in relationship to the fatigue of aluminium alloys ; and Lunt and MacLellan give a detailed mathematical treatment of the wire-drawing process. H. W. L. Phillips deals at length with the alloys of aluminium containing magnesium, silicon and iron, and has an interesting account of the application of some thermodynamic principles to the liquidus surfaces of these materials. Corrosion problems, which have always interested the Institute, are dealt with in four papers, of which one may perhaps particularly mention that of Dr. Cuthbertson on the resistance to sea-water ocorrosion of some α-tin bronzes. The structure of ingots and castings is the theme of three papers ; ageing effects of three more, and fatigue problems crop up repeatedly. There will, in fact, be few concerned with non-ferrous metallurgy to whom some of the contributions are not of direct appeal.
The Journal of the Institute of Metals
Vol. 72, 1946. Edited by N. B. Vaughan. Pp. lvii+732+80 plates. (London: Institute of Metals, 1946.) £3.
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The Journal of the Institute of Metals. Nature 162, 638 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162638a0
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