“…[8,9,42,85,86], can be viewed in the vein of earlier considerations by Gough [87], Dehlinger [88] and Hempel and co-workers [58,60]. The evidence suggests strongly that the physical origin of the fatigue limit of a-iron is related to the b.c.c, structure, as suggested previously by Ferro and co-workers [82,83], Wood and co-workers [28], Adair and Lipsitt [84], BergstrSm and co-workers [32] and by ourselves [7-9, 15, 42]. However, the "characteristics" of the fatigue limit, cf.…”