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Strain

Posted on 01/01/2019 Category:

The deformation caused by an applied stress. In tensile testing, the ratio of the elongation to the gauge length of the test specimen, that is, the change in length per unit of original length. A rubber stretched to double its original length would be at 100% strain.

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