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ABSTRACT COMMON SENSE, as Lebasteur has remarked, prevents us from denying the existence of a limit of elasticity in metals. It is true that the smallest load oh a test-piece will cause a
slight permanent set. Nevertheless, such structures as iron railway bridges retain their shape, and if a piece of metal is subjected to a small stress many times in succession, recovery
after each application becomes almost perfect. What, then, is the elastic limit? The Commission des Methodes d'Essai of 1894 announced that it is necessary to recognise three such
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ARTICLE R., T. _The Elastic Limit of Metals_ . _Nature_ 69, 276–277 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069276a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 21 January 1904 * DOI:
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