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Unloading — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. What is left when the load comes off. Mild steel taken to a strain of 0.60% and then unloaded to zero stress, at which point the strain has not returned to zero: 0.469% of it is permanent.

    What is left when the load comes off

    Unload a section that has yielded and it does not return to nothing. It returns to a self-equilibrating stress field it did not have before, a permanent set, and an elastic range wider than the one it started with.

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