per unit width. A United States customary unit is pounds per square inch (lb/in² or psi). Kilopounds per square inch (ksi, or sometimes kpsi) is equal to 1000 psi, and is commonly used in the United States, when measuring tensile strengths.

Ductile materials

Many materials can display linear elastic behavior, defined by a linear stress-strain relationship,

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