Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
The tensile deformation of single crystals of aluminium was examined by Taylor and Elam, using test-pieces composed of one crystal only. Miss Elam kindly supplied the author with a test-piece containing three large crystals, and an investigation of the effect of the constraint at the crystal boundary was carried out upon it as described below.
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† This notation indicates that the extremities of the major axis of the elliptical cross-section lay between reference lines 4 and 5 and between lines 8 and 1.Google Scholar
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* The original plates from which the author intended Figs. 10 to 15 to be reproduced were broken in transit from Australia. The figures here shown were reproduced from prints in which the spots were far less well defined than in the originals.Google Scholar