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Stress and Strain in Materials
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Niko LoTeacher Tier
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Stress is force per area (
); strain is the fractional deformation (
). Hooke's law:
where
is Young's modulus. Below the yield point, materials return to shape; beyond it, they deform permanently; at the ultimate stress, they fracture.
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Jamal T.
16 days agoThe step-by-step is what makes this work. Most explanations skip that.
Maya R.
16 days agoThe intuition you build before the formal definition is everything.
Aiden K. Teacher
16 days agoGlad it's useful. Planning a follow-up on the edge cases.
Tomas G.
16 days agoHonestly the clearest version of this I've read on CampusWorld.