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Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'Internal stress created by plastic flow in mild steel, and stress-strain curves for the atomic lattice of higher carbon steels' by S L Smith and W A Wood

Reference number: RR/68/404

Date: 1943

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Communicated by Charles Galton Darwin. Has no modifications to suggest. Criticises how the non-homogeneous character of the demformation has been overlooked, 'but this is an old criticism, and is best considered in a discussion'. Refers to 1903 theory of George Thomas Beilby, which was rejected by British and German physicists, but accepted by a few American metallurgists, and the referee.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.

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1943
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Cecil Henry Desch, Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'Internal stress created by plastic flow in mild steel, and stress-strain curves for the atomic lattice of higher carbon steels' by S L Smith and W A Wood, 1943, RR/68/404, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_404/referees-report-by-cecil-henry-desch-on-a-paper-internal-stress-created-by-plastic-flow-in-mild-steel-and-stress-strain-curves-for-the-atomic-lattice-of-higher-carbon-steels-by-s-l-smith-and-w-a-wood, accessed on 16 March 2026

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