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Recrystallization of Metals under Stress

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IN Nature of September 11, 1948, Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade and also Messrs. Sully, Cale and Willoughby discuss the recrystallization of metals under stress. This phenomenon has been under observation1–3 in the Metallurgical Laboratories of the University of Melbourne for some fourteen years ; and we have reached the following conclusions relating to lead and its dilute alloys.

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  1. Greenwood and collaborators, Proc. Aust. Inst. Min. and Met., Nos. 95, 101, 104, 109.

  2. Greenwood and Worner, J. Inst. Met., 1 (1939).

  3. Greenwood and Cole, Metallurgia (April 1948).

  4. Hirst, H., Proc. Aust. Inst. Min. and Met., No. 118.

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GREENWOOD, J. Recrystallization of Metals under Stress. Nature 163, 248–249 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163248b0

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