Bakerian lecture.—The crystalline structure of metals

Abstract

In a previous communication, read to the Society on March 16, a preliminary account was given of some of the results the authors had arrived at in studying metals by the microscopic methods initiated by Sorby, and pursued by Andrews, Arnold, Behrens, Charpy, Osmond, Roberts-Austen, Stead, and others. The present paper deals with a development and extension of the same work. It relates chiefly, though not exclusively, to the effects of strain, and the relation of plasticity to crystalline structure.