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    This document defines key concepts related to the mechanical behavior of materials under stress. It explains that materials will either deform or fracture when under load. Deformation can be elastic, meaning the material returns to its original shape when stress is removed, or plastic, where the material is permanently deformed. Fracture occurs when the material breaks into pieces. The document also defines stress as the internal resisting force on a material, and strain as the amount of deformation. It provides conventions for describing normal stresses that cause tension or compression, and shear stresses where force is parallel to the surface.

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    This document defines key concepts related to the mechanical behavior of materials under stress. It explains that materials will either deform or fracture when under load. Deformation can be elastic, meaning the material returns to its original shape when stress is removed, or plastic, where the material is permanently deformed. Fracture occurs when the material breaks into pieces. The document also defines stress as the internal resisting force on a material, and strain as the amount of deformation. It provides conventions for describing normal stresses that cause tension or compression, and shear stresses where force is parallel to the surface.

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    This document defines key concepts related to the mechanical behavior of materials under stress. It explains that materials will either deform or fracture when under load. Deformation can be elastic, meaning the material returns to its original shape when stress is removed, or plastic, where the material is permanently deformed. Fracture occurs when the material breaks into pieces. The document also defines stress as the internal resisting force on a material, and strain as the amount of deformation. It provides conventions for describing normal stresses that cause tension or compression, and shear stresses where force is parallel to the surface.

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    This document defines key concepts related to the mechanical behavior of materials under stress. It explains that materials will either deform or fracture when under load. Deformation can be elastic, meaning the material returns to its original shape when stress is removed, or plastic, where the material is permanently deformed. Fracture occurs when the material breaks into pieces. The document also defines stress as the internal resisting force on a material, and strain as the amount of deformation. It provides conventions for describing normal stresses that cause tension or compression, and shear stresses where force is parallel to the surface.

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    MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF

    MATERIALS
    Definitions
    Mechanical behavior refers to the response of materials to forces
    Under load, a material may either deform or break.
    When a material deforms under small stresses, the deformation may be elastic. In
    this case, when the stress is removed, the material will revert to its original
    shape.
    Most of the elastic deformation will recover immediately.
    Sometimes, there is time-dependent shape recovery. This time-dependent elastic
    behavior is called anelastic or viscoelastic.
    Larger stresses may cause plastic deformation. After a material undergoes plastic
    deformation, it will not revert to its original shape when the stress is removed.
    Plastic deformation usually occurs as soon as the stress is applied. At high
    temperatures, however, time-dependent plastic deformation called creep may
    occur.
    Fracture is the breaking of a material into two or more pieces. If fracture occurs
    before much plastic deformation occurs, we say that the material is brittle.
    If there has been extensive plastic deformation preceding fracture, the material is
    considered ductile.
    Fracture usually occurs as soon as a critical stress has been reached; however,
    repeated applications of a somewhat lower stress may cause fracture. This is
    called fatigue.
    Stress and strain
    The amount of deformation that a material undergoes is described by strain.
    Linear Strain = Change in length/original length
    Stress, , is defined as the intensity of (internal resisting) force at a point:
    = F/ A as A 0.
    If the state of stress is the same everywhere in a body,
    = F/A.
    A normal stress (compressive or tensile) is one in which the force is normal to the
    area on which it acts. With a shear stress, the force is parallel to the area on
    which it acts.
    Two subscripts are required to define a stress. The first subscript denotes the
    normal to the plane on which the force acts and the second subscript identifies
    the direction of the force.
    The nine components of stress acting on an infinitesimal element.
    The normal stress components are xx, yy, and zz. The shear stress
    components are yz, zx, xy, zy, xz, and yx.
    Sign Conventions
    For a normal stress: positive (negative) if it produces tension (compression) in the
    material.
    For a shear stress: positive if, when acting on the + face identified by the first
    index, it points in the + direction identified by the second index. Example:
    xy
    is +
    if on the +x face it points in the +y direction.

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