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1939 H. London in Proc. Royal Soc. A. 171 484 By maintaining a temperature gradient along the capillary, it is thus possible to produce a flow of helium against a pressure gradient... The phenomenon which we shall call the ‘thermomechanical effect’ reveals a new mechanism by which heat can be transformed into mechanical work.

1959 K. R. Atkins Liquid Helium i. 11 The thermo~mechanical pressure difference Δp arising from a temperature difference ΔT is given by Δp/ΔT = Q*/TV, where Q* is the heat transfer associated with the transfer of unit mass..and V is the volume of unit mass.

1964 New Scientist 24 Sept. 773/1 Shortly after the discovery of this ‘thermo-mechanical’ effect the complementary ‘mechano-caloric’ phenomenon was observed.

1974 D. R. Tilley & J. Tilley Superfluidity & Superconductivity i. 9 These manifestations of the thermomechanical effect show clearly that heat transfer and mass transfer in the II are inseparable.

1974 Sci. Amer. June 34/3 The less energetic ions (thermal deuterons and tritons)..are capable of producing sharp thermomechanical stresses in a thin skin of the first wall.

1975 Nature 7 Aug. 455/3 The uncertainty in geochemical characteristics, especially of the radiogenic isotopes, leaves many degrees of freedom in predicting the present thermo-mechanical state of the interior [of Mercury].

1976 Nature 22 July p. iii. (advt.) The journal will welcome papers concerned with the relevant areas of materials technology and metallurgy, e.g. thermomechanical treatments.