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  2. Stress (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    This type of stress may be called (simple) normal stress or uniaxial stress; specifically, (uniaxial, simple, etc.) tensile stress. [13] If the load is compression on the bar, rather than stretching it, the analysis is the same except that the force F and the stress change sign, and the stress is called compressive stress.

  3. Hogging and sagging - Wikipedia

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    Hogging is the stress a ship's hull or keel experiences that causes the center or the keel to bend upward. Sagging is the stress a ship's hull or keel is placed under when a wave is the same length as the ship and the ship is in the trough of two waves.

  4. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    The tendency of a material to break without significant plastic deformation when subjected to stress. Brittle materials absorb relatively little energy prior to fracture, even those of high strength. Breaking is often accompanied by a snapping sound. Brownian motion. Also called pedesis.

  5. Suffering - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Siu, an American author, urged in 1988 the "creation of a new and vigorous academic discipline, called panetics, to be devoted to the study of the infliction of suffering", [21] The International Society for Panetics was founded in 1991 to study and develop ways to reduce the infliction of human suffering by individuals acting through ...

  6. Bauschinger effect - Wikipedia

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    Stress relief annealing is a common approach, where the material is heated to a specific temperature and held for a certain duration, allowing dislocations to rearrange and internal stresses to dissipate. This process reduces the Bauschinger effect by minimizing internal stress fields and achieving a more uniform distribution of dislocations. [15]

  7. Deformation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    This is not true since the actual area will decrease while deforming due to elastic and plastic deformation. The curve based on the original cross-section and gauge length is called the engineering stress–strain curve, while the curve based on the instantaneous cross-section area and length is called the true stress–strain curve. Unless ...

  8. Strength of materials - Wikipedia

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    When a part is subjected to a cyclic stress, also known as stress range (Sr), it has been observed that the failure of the part occurs after a number of stress reversals (N) even if the magnitude of the stress range is below the material's yield strength. Generally, higher the range stress, the fewer the number of reversals needed for failure.

  9. Creep (deformation) - Wikipedia

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    In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material. Creep is more severe in materials that are ...