Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 579]

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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS

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tory apparatus as it may possess, which is not in use for other purposes. It is agreed, however, that all special apparatus necessary for this investigation and not available in the laboratories of the Engineering Experiment Station of the University shall be purchased from, and charged against, the funds provided by the Engineering Foundation for this purpose. Equipment purchased with funds provided by the Engineering Foundation shall remain its property until disposed of by its direction. 4. The Committee on the Fatigue Phenomena of Metals of the National Research Council shall constitute an Advisory Committee to advise v/ith the officers of the Engineering Experiment Station of the University, concerning the test program and the conduct of the investigation, and to co-operate in the preparation of the summaries and reports. The conduct of the tests shall be under the control of the University through the Engineering Experiment Station, which is necessarily responsible for the results secured. (See also paragraph 2.) 5. (a) The records of the investigation are to be kept on file by the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois. (b) The University, through the Engineering Experiment Station, shall have the right to publish the results of the investigation as a bulletin of the Station. The bulletin shall contain a detailed description of the investigation and a full report of the results and conclusions. In addition, the University agrees that the Engineering Experiment Station shall prepare a brief, comprehensive statement regarding the investigation, suitable for publication in the journals of the Engineering Societies. No publicity shall be given to any of the results of the investigation prior to the publication of these results by the Engineering Experiment Station, except upon the recommendation of the Advisory Committee and by agreement with the Executive Staff of the Station. In every publication, proper credit shall be given the Advisory Committee and to every one who has made a significant contribution to the results obtained. (c) If, for any reason, the University is unable or unwilling to proceed with the publication of the results of this investigation within a reasonable time after the approval of the manuscript, as herein provided, the Engineering Foundation and the National Research Council shall have the right to direct that the results of the investigation be published elsewhere with only such mention of the University as it shall consent to. (d) The manuscript prepared for publication by the Engineering Experiment Station shall be approved by the Advosory Committee, the Engineering Foundation, and the National Research Council before publication; provided, however, that if, for any reason these bodies fail to take action within a reasonable time, regarding the approval of the manuscript submitted to them the University shall have the right to proseed with the publication of the manuscript without their approval. 6. The Advisory Committee and authorized representatives of the Engineering Foundation and the National Research Council shall at all times have access to the data secured and the computed results of the tests, subject, however, to the restrictions named in Article 5. The Engineering Experiment Station will submit such reports of progress to the officers of the Engineering Foundation and the National Research Council as may seem desirable to the Advisory Committee. 7. All research assistants, mechanicians, clerks, and other help necessary for the effective prosecution of this investigation will be employed by the University through the Engineering Experiment Station and paid from the fund provided by the Engineering Foundation and the National Research Council. No person shall be permanently employed for this investigation, who is not acceptable to a majority of the members of the Advisory Committee. The members of the special staff for this investigation are to be regarded as members of the Research Corps of the Engineering Experiment Station of the University during their connection therewith. 8. On or before November 15, 1919, the Engineering Foundation shall pay to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois the sum of $9,000 and thereafter tjie sum of $3,000 on or about each of the following dates: