Materials at Low Temperatures

The aim of this volume is to establish a firm basis for the understanding of materials behavior and property measurement to use for design and materials selection at low temperatures. The fourteen chapters of this book were written and edited by members of the materials group of the Cryogenics Division of the National Bureau of Standards. Each chapter concludes with a lengthy list of references with the full bibliographic citations. A detailed subject index is included. Contents abridged: Elastic properties. Electrical properties. Magnetic properties. Fracture mechanics. Martensitic phase transformation. Composites. Temperature, strain, and magnetic fields measurements.