pp 625-625 September 1984

Foreword

C N R R V Balakrishnan G Venkataraman

pp 627-631 September 1984

Observations on the physical basis of mechanical behaviour

S Ramaseshan

pp 633-641 September 1984

Shocks and high velocity deformation

R Chidambaram

pp 643-643 September 1984

Computer simulation of tensile testing

V Sridhar

pp 645-651 September 1984

Instabilities in yielding

G Venkataraman

pp 653-663 September 1984

Serrated plastic flow

P Rodriguez

pp 665-676 September 1984

Repeated yield drop phenomena as a cooperative effect

G Ananthakrishna

pp 677-687 September 1984

Mechanisms and empirical equations for deformation and some principles of alloy design

T Balakrishna Bhat

pp 689-698 September 1984

Superplasticity

K Srinivasa Raghavan

pp 699-700 September 1984

Grain boundary-dislocation interactions

S Ranganathan

pp 701-701 September 1984

Instabilities in first order phase transitions

S Banerjee

pp 703-716 September 1984

Deformation and martensitic transformation

V Seetharaman

pp 717-732 September 1984

Strength and electronic structure

K Govinda Rajan

pp 733-753 September 1984

Ferroelasticity

V K Wadhawan

pp 755-772 September 1984

Effects of mechanical deformation: Exoemission

G Mukhopadhyay

pp 773-774 September 1984

Relevance of liquid state to solid state properties

H R Krishna Murthy T V Ramakrishnan

pp 775-798 September 1984

Elastic continuum theories of lattice defects: a review

Debendranath Sahoo

pp 799-804 September 1984

Fracture of particulate composites

S Ray

pp 805-806 September 1984

Experimental study of fluctuations in materials

K R Rao

pp 807-815 September 1984

Elementary concepts in chaos and turbulence

Ramakrishna Ramaswamy

pp 817-822 September 1984

Fractals

D Dhar

pp 823-825 September 1984

Summary and outlook

V Balakrishnan

pp 827-835 September 1984

Panel discussion