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Program Chairman, SAMPE NSTC-13, Union Carbide~Coating Material Division, P.O. Box 670, Bond Brook, NJ 08805, USA. Further details of the conference can be obtained from Marge Smith, P.O. Box 613, Azusa, California 91702, USA. The First international conference on fatigue and corrosion fatigue up to ultrasonic frequencies is to be held on 2 6 - 3 0 October in Champion, Pennsylvania, USA. The meeting is being co-sponsored by the Flow and Fracture Committee of the Materials Science Division of ASM, the Engineering Foundation, the Mechanical Metallurgy Committee of TMS-AIME, and the Fatigue Committee ( E - 9 ) of ASTM. Session topics for the conference will include: higher frequency testing techniques; material mechanical response to high frequency or high strain rate loading; frequency effects on fatigue and corrosion behaviour; and industrial design applications of high frequency or ultra-high frequency cycle fatigue data. Details are available from: Con-

ferences Department, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, Ohio 44073, USA. The 5th International conference on deformation, yield and fracture of polymers is to be held at Churchill College, Cambridge, England on 29 March-1 April 1982. A call for papers has been issued by the organizers, with contributions on new and important investigations of deformation, yield and fracture of polymers being invited. The following areas have been selected as being of particular interest: molecular aspects; micromechanics; residual stresses; fatigue; deformation and fracture at high rates of strain; and surfaces and interfaces. It is hoped that both verbal and 'poster' presentations

will be available and intending authors are asked to indicate their preference. Detailed outlines of papers, 3 0 0 500 words in length, will be required not later than 1 August 1981. Extended abstracts of selected papers

(about 2500 words) will be required by 1 December 1981. Full details are available from: J. N. Ratct/ffe, The

Plastics and Rubber Institute, 11 Hobart Place, London, SW1 W OHL, England.

Publications A guide to the preparation of engineering specifications is the title of a new publication from the Design Council. The guide represents a real attempt to bring together various engineering interests and to outline how specifications should be written for the best common understanding of all designers, engineers, manufacturers and buyers. The Guide has been prepared by a panel drawn from members of the EEUA (Engineering Equipment Users Association), representing between them major users of Engineering products in the private and public sectors of industry in the UK. The three most common types of specification - project identification, selling, and purchasing - are considered. Full details of the Guide, which costs £3.50, are available from The Design Council, 28 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SU, England. ASTM has published a fully revised edition of the Handbook of comparative world steel standards (price $125). First produced in 1974, the book prorides a unique comparison of steel standards from six countries: USA (ASTM standards), UK (British Standards), West Germany (DIN), USSR (GOST), France (NF), and Japan (JIS). Data are arranged according to steel type, use and chemical composition, for individual steel standards. Chapter headings are: steel plates-structural and

boiler/pressure vessels; steels for pipes and tubes; alloy steels.

ASTM, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA. The fourth edition of the Thesaurus of metallurgical terms has been published by Metals Information, the joint information service of American Society for Metals and the Metals Society (London). The thesaurus serves as the vocabulary control for the subject indexing of Metals Abstracts, and is used by organizations worldwide as an aid in searching the METADEX database online. It contains nearly 8500 unique terms with 65 000 cross references that help serve as a 'road map' to technical information by showing the relationship between terms in the metallurgical engineering vocabulary. The book, essentially an information retrieval tool that is designed to help the indexer, author, and searcher, can thus be used for index generation of published alphabetical indexes, c a r d catalogues, semiautomatic display systems, and computer retrieval systems. In information retrieval, it can be used for file organization, for phrasing queries to a central service, and for co-ordinating files in various disciplines.

Metals Information, American Society for Metals, Metals Park, Ohio 44073, USA.

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