Confirming Pages: Engineering Stress-Strain Curves For Selected Metals and Alloys
Confirming Pages: Engineering Stress-Strain Curves For Selected Metals and Alloys
Confirming Pages: Engineering Stress-Strain Curves For Selected Metals and Alloys
270
210
Stainless steel sheet 17-7PH
2017-T4
60
Structural steel (mild steel)
30 Magnesium
0
0 0.04 0.08 0.12 0.16 0.20 0.24
Strain ε (in./in.)
Figure 6.23
Engineering stress-strain curves for selected metals and alloys.
(Source: Marin, Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials, 1st ed., 1962.)
200
180
*
160
True stress–true strain
140
Stress σ (1000 psi)
120
100
Engineering stress–engineering strain
80
*
60
40
20 * denotes fracture
0
0 0.08 0.16 0.24 0.32 0.40 0.48 0.56 0.64 0.72 0.80 0.88
Unit strain
Figure 6.24
Comparison of the true stress–true strain curve with the engineering (nominal)
stress-strain diagram for a low-carbon steel.
(Source: H. E. McGannon (ed.), The Making, Shaping, and Treating of Steel, 9th ed., United States
Steel, 1971.)