Higher and higher strengths are nowadays required for structural materials, forreducing the weight of transportation machines like automobiles in order to improvefuelefficiency,realizinghugeconstructionslikeultra-talltowers,andsecuringhumanbeings and society from incidents and disasters like collisions, earthquakes, and soon. However, the ductility and/or toughness of materials generally decrea…
12 papers by 22 authors from the “Metools” symposium (Queens University, Belfast, 2016), aim to shine a spotlight on the tools of the metalworker and to follow their evolution from the beginning of the Bronze Age through to the Iron Age, as well as the place held by metalworking and its artisans in the economic and social landscape of the period.