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7. Acknowledgments
<strong>The</strong> authors would like to thank a number <strong>of</strong> people and organisations for their assistance in
the programs discussed in this report.
1. Christina Jacques-Olsson (MPD) and Monash University Department <strong>of</strong> Physics for the
residual stress analysis.
2. ASTA Military Services (Avalon) and Hunter Aviation and Engineering Services
(Williamtown) for specimen preparation and allowing access to their facilities.
3. Rohan Byrnes, Nick Athiniotis and Simon Barter for their work over the years which has
contributed to this report.
4. Dr John Clayton was involved in all <strong>of</strong> the early phases <strong>of</strong> this work.
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