Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word stress-strain.

Examples

  • After four years, I've gained it back and am struggling to pull it off again having to learn to cope with stress-strain like never before.

    Beauty and Power thoughts Steven Barnes 2008

  • In the last chapter, I said that small steps add up to big benefits, and the same is true for stress: making small changes in your stress reactions will make a big difference in breaking the stress-strain progression.

    THRIVING WITH HEART DISEASE Wayne M. Sotile 2003

  • After a closer look, I realized that nearly all of the trees that had snapped or as an engineer might say, “reached their failure point on the stress-strain curve” were pines, hemlocks, and other softwoods.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • After a closer look, I realized that nearly all of the trees that had snapped or as an engineer might say, “reached their failure point on the stress-strain curve” were pines, hemlocks, and other softwoods.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • After a closer look, I realized that nearly all of the trees that had snapped or as an engineer might say, “reached their failure point on the stress-strain curve” were pines, hemlocks, and other softwoods.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • After a closer look, I realized that nearly all of the trees that had snapped or as an engineer might say, “reached their failure point on the stress-strain curve” were pines, hemlocks, and other softwoods.

    BUILDING THE TIMBER FRAME HOUSE Tedd Benson 1980

  • Figure 20 shows a typical stress-strain curve for ferrocement.

    Chapter 9 1973

  • Then, as the load increases, the cementitious matrix cracks, and stage II begins where there is a change of slope in the stress-strain curve.

    Chapter 9 1973

  • Apparently, the companies have started exploration in earnest; shakes a couple of months ago occurred on top of one another, well away from any surface feature (fault) that would account for * very shallow* stress-strain rupture.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Once you have all that data you can plot stress-strain curves and learn all sorts of interesting things about said material

    BitWorking | Joe Gregorio Joe Gregorio 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.