Includes 4 papers presented at the First Pacific Area National Meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials, held in San Francisco, CA, October 10, 1949. L.R. Jackskon & W.T. Lankford: The Experimental Exploration of Plastic Flow in Sheet Metals; W. Schroeder: Forming Parameters & Criteria for Design & Production; H.C. Cross & L.R. Jackson: The Use of Creep Data in Design; J.W. Freeman, D.N. Frey, E.E. Reynolds, & A.E. White: Super Creep-Resistant Alloys.