Materials, Properties and Design

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· Engineering stress and strain are related by Hooke's law in the elastic range with the slope of the line being Youngs modulus, E.
· At the end of the elastic range, P, the material starts to plastically deform and removal of the applied stress does not return the material to its original length.
· To provide a reproducible measure of the transition between elastic and plastic behavior the Offset Yield Stress, σy , is defined as the stress that produces a permanent strain of 0.002


From: Callister, "Materials Science and Engineering," Wiley (1997)