A Conference on Thermal Stress: Summaries of Papers Read at the Meetings Held by the Stress Analysis Group of the Institute of Physics at Wills Hall, University of Bristol, on January 7 and 8, 1954

The conference was opened by Professor A. G. Pugsley, who welcomed the members to Wills Hall and commented on the importance and appropriateness, at the present time, of the subject of the meeting. In doing so, he drew attention to some general considerations relevant to the detailed subjects they were to discuss.