Tensile Behavior of Materials - Stress and Strain

Tensile stress and tensile strain defined and illustrated.

Figure 1.9.2 Tensile stress and tensile strain defined and illustrated.

Strain-Strain curves and other concepts

With the concepts of stress and strain defined above, we can now use the tensile test simulation in NetLogo model 1.9.1 to explore stress-strain curves and some additional concepts. The model is a molecular dynamics model which slowly increases the tensile force applied to the sample over time and plots the stress-strain curve.