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What should the results be from a tensile test. Elastic/plastic behavior?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Both. If you look at a stress-strain curve, it might look like this. |dw:1337224065421:dw|Below the horizontal line we see elastic behavior (constant, linear slope). Above and left of the horizontal line, we see plastic behavior as the sample necks and eventually breaks.

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