Abstract
The behaviour in tension and in bending of a steel plate which has been cold-formed to a cylindrical shape has been calculated from the results of tension-compression tests on specimens of the steel and found to agree closely with the actual behaviour of full-thickness cold-formed plate. The effect of preforming was to reduce the strength in tension and also in bending to a reversed curvature when straining was in the same direction as the original prestraining. When the straining was at right-angles to the prestraining smaller effects were observed.

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