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Abid Hasan Rafi

What is a non-uniform plastic deformation, and how does it occur?

CT Berchem  Follow

Deformation is how a “body” or thing changes shape. It is almost always non-uniform, the exception being a uniform load applied to a shape without any form of stress concentrations - effectively a rectangular shape aligned with the load.

Now, plastic deformation is deformation that remains permanent after the load is removed. (And that deos not have rate-dependencies, viscous components.) Usually, there is a bit of elastic deformation occuring before the plasticity sets in. Thus, if the deformation is non-uniform (as it almost always is) then any plastic deformatiion occuring will also be non-uniform.

Of course, the trivial counterexample is when there is no plastic deformation (as when the load is below yield) - then the plastic deformation is uniformly zero everywhere.

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Dave Young  Follow

Mainly by plastic deformation we infer permanent deformation, and it is 100% true.

There are many things which we can infer from plastic deformation

  1. We separate ductile and brittle material on the basis of amount of Plastic Deformation.
  2. It indirectly talks about the ultimate strength, hardness and toughness of material.
  3. The amount of Plastic Deformation help us to predict the density of dislocations.

and many things…

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