Talk:Strain (materials science)

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Hello, How would I calculate the force on an object created by a 6.0 earthquake. (The forced movement)

[edit] Rewrite

Hi. I think there is an error in this article. (today: 5/11/05) It's written: 'If Strain is greater than 1, the body has been lengthened; if it is smaller than 1, it has been compressed.' In fact it is: if strain > 0, the body has been lengthened and if strain < 0... according to the definition of the strain written in this same article! Am I right?

Thanks; I've rewritten parts of the article. Please review it and let me know what you think. Tom Harrison ^(talk) 04:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

I just did loads of stuff to this article. I would say its fairly clean, not quite featured article standard, but clean enough to remove the cleanup notice. I took out a couple of bits about earthquakes, I thought that was a bit too detailed (do we really want to know about tectonic folding in a strain article?), and changed the Small values of strain section to Engineering strain vs. true strain. I'm not done with this article yet. --Nathan 07:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] To do

• Torsional strain
• Strain hardening
• Necking and poisson's ratio
• Engineering strain vs. True strain
  • done. I'll get working on the rest soon. --Nathan 07:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• ?

Tom Harrison ^(talk) 14:25, 6 November 2005 (UTC)