Testing materials

Abstract

Introduction: The subject of testing materials is too broad to b treated in detail in a short article such as this must necessarily be. Its breadth is such that one would have to work almost a lifetime to be able to handle it satisfactorily if one depended altogether on ones own resources. Our treatment of the subject will therefore be confined entirely to tests of timber, and we will have recourse to the publications of other experimenters for the greater part of our information