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No going back (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by HootinNHollerin to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Can a TI-84slinger explain this for us pipette-wielders?

[–] HootinNHollerin 51 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Past the elastic deformation region / yield stress you get plastic deformation, which even when the stress is completely removed there is permanent deformation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Gotcha. Thanks! Do the points P, E, Y, U, and F stand for something or are the letters arbitrary?

[–] Dettweiler42 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Plastic deformation point, elastic deformation point, yield point, ultimate strength, and failure point