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Is mild steel stretchy

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

It's stretchy given enough force, this sounds a little bit like a coursework assignment so research 'Stress-Strain' graphs. Just look up 'Stress Strain graph for Mild Steel'. You'll notice the first portion of the line is straight? This part of the graph is the 'stretchy' bit, also known as Hooke's law, or the limit of proportionality... 'Stress is directly proportional to strain', in simple words... You can stretch the mild steel and it will return to normal. If you stretch past this point on a StressStrain graph, the material has 'yielded'... Ie it won't return to it's normal shape, it's permanently deformed.

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15y ago

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